It is the first purpose of hope to make hopelessness bearable.

You can accept a falling out that changes your plans, but it's hard to accept a betrayal that changes your memories.

Marriage is nature's way of ensuring that a woman picks up some mothering experience before she has her first child.

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.

Genius is a plodding intellect, incapable of dreaming up the obstacles that stop the rest of us.

The more side roads you stop to explore, the less likely that life will pass you by.

On a windswept hill by a billowing sea, my destiny sits and waits for me.