I see people getting so caught up in celebrating diversity that they are neglecting their commonality. I don't see this as a good thing. The Chinese culture has survived for more than five thousand years in part because the Chinese have embraced the same language and culture. I hope I am wrong about this, and that the flame is still on beneath the great American melting pot. Americans need each other, and a house divided, no matter the color of its occupants, is still divided. And divided we all fall.

We are chained to that which we do not forgive

Small kindnesses often, unintentionally, produce the biggest payoffs.

There's a problem with marrying up. You always worry that someday they'll see through you and leave. Or, worse yet, someone better will come along and take her. In my case, it wasn't someone. And it wasn't something better.

Old friends are memories personified.

The only way to remove pain from death is to remove love from life.

Broken vows are like broken mirrors. They leave those who held to them bleeding and staring at fractured images of themselves.