I absolutely love playing the game 'Risk.

Books are the most tolerant of friends.

Suffering ceases to be suffering when we form a clear picture of it.

Life is what happens to us while we're planning something else.

Psychologists tested the story of the Good Samaritan. What they learned gives us reason to pause. The greatest determinant of who stopped to help the stranger in need was not compassion, morality, or religious creed. It was those who had the time. Makes me wonder if I have time to do good.

. . .and every native has a story of winter – stories that usually begin, You call this a storm? And grow in the telling like battle tales shared by graying war veterans. It’s a peculiar character flaw to those of us from cold climates that we feel superior to those who have the sense to live elsewhere.

Life is the soil, our choices and actions the sun and rain, but our dreams are the seeds.