Love's action. It isn't talk and it never has been.

In family matters you can get over anything. That's one thing you'll learn as an adult. There's a lot you have to learn which is a lot worse than that. You'd never think of forgiving a friend for some of the things your parents did to you. But with friends it's different. Friends aren't the roll of the dice.

Walking the streets of Charleston in the late afternoons of August was like walking through gauze or inhaling damaged silk.

She thought she brought a gift of compassion for those exhausted souls who had not received a chest portion from the people who raised them. If compassion and therapy did not work, she could always send her patients to the local pharmacy for drugs.

Her laughter was a shiny thing, like pewter flung high in the air.

Every industry is going to be affected (by the aging population). This creates tremendous opportunities and tremendous challenges.

Happiness is an accident of nature, a beautiful and flawless aberration.