If indeed the death of a child is part of a larger plan, you wonder if God ever considered a smaller plan.

We have a choice every day — to act on yesterday's good intentions or get an early start on tomorrow's regrets.

The difference between education and know-how is that one you pay for, the other you charge for.

Grammar is not a set of arbitrary rules; it is a compact between people who wish to understand each other.

The average pencil is seven inches long, with just a half-inch eraser - in case you thought optimism was dead In fact maybe there is a lesson there for how we should approach the future...with fourteen parts optimism - anticipating what could go right and the benefits - and one part pessimism - anticipating what could go wrong so we can avoid them.

Few can accept happiness if it means change. We want the life we have now, only happier.

It helps if you don't see it as traffic but rather as thousands of individuals resolved to press on another day.