Are you an artist? Look about you. Is there a physical tool whose use you have mastered, a part of your body that responds utterly to your control? Is your motive esthetic? If so, you are an artist. If not, you are probably a writer.

Why try to explain miracles to your kids when you can just have them plant a garden.

What you discover about people you try not to offend is that you can offend them without trying.

Conspicuously absent from the Ten Commandments is any obligation of parent to child. We must suppose that God felt it unnecessary to command by law what He had ensured by love.

In childhood, we yearn to be grown-ups. In old age, we yearn to be kids. It just seems that all would be wonderful if we didn't have to celebrate our birthdays in chronological order.

If there's anything better than a God-given talent, it's a God-given day job.

A good marriage is each for the other and two against the world.