Happiness is life served up with a scoop of acceptance, a topping of tolerance and sprinkles of hope, although chocolate sprinkles also work.

Life is too short to hold a grudge, also too long.

The thing about a friendly smile is not just that it makes people like you but that it makes them like themselves.

Learning is a lifetime process, but there comes a time when we must stop adding and start updating.

From an aunt, long ago: "Death has come for me many times but finds me always in my lovely garden and leaves me there, I think, as an excuse to return.

Being loved by all is little fun Unless you're also loved by one.

Looking back on our lives, we invariably find that the person we pretended to be is the person we became.