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

There are more martyrs to nonsense than truth, truth preferring missionaries.

To a small child, the perfect granddad is unafraid of big dogs and fierce storms but absolutely terrified of the word "boo."

If you allow people to treat you like a doormat, they will expect you to say WELCOME.

The only creature on earth whose natural habitat is a zoo is the zookeeper.

You can hope for a miracle in your life, or you realize that your life is the miracle.

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.