How happy is the Optimist / To whom life shows its sunny side / His horse may lose, his ship may list, / But he always sees the funny side.

Tomorrow will come and today will pass, / But the hearts of the young are brittle as glass.

Gardening has compensations out of all proportion to its goals. It is creation in the pure sense.

A mother's hardest to forgive. Life is the fruit she longs to hand you Ripe on a plate. And while you live, Relentlessly she understands you.

God know that a mother need fortitude and courage and tolerance and flexibility and patience and firmness and nearly every other brave aspect of the human soul.

Say what you will, making a marriage work is a woman's business.

Of one thing I am certain, the body is not the measure of healing, peace is the measure.