To become a grandparent is to enjoy one of the few pleasures in life for which the consequences have already been paid.

The greatest gift we give to someone who loves us is simply to be happy.

You never get people's fuller attention than when you're listening to them.

The Lord gives us friends to push us to our potential — and enemies to push us beyond it.

Sometimes two people need to step apart and make a space between that each might see the other anew, in a glance across a room or silhouetted against the moon.

Always telling the truth is no doubt better than always lying, although equally pathological.

Most often the person you would die for would settle for dinner and a movie.