Anything we tell our kids about life is a placemarker until they figure it out for themselves.

The hardest thing to accept as a parent is that you cannot apply the bandage before the bruise.

The most valuable lesson man has learned from his dog is to kick a few blades of grass over it and move on.

No one complains of being a prisoner of love who has ever been a prisoner of loneliness.

Better to start up a thousand wrong roads than to spend your life going nowhere because you know the way.

Where hope would otherwise become hopelessness, it becomes faith.

The trouble with selfish motives is that they harden into principles, and you end up sending your kids to war for them.