Sometimes the shortest distance between two points is a winding path walked arm in arm.

Often it's just a short swim from the shipwreck of your life to the island paradise of your dreams, assuming you don't drown in the metaphor.

People are resilient. After all, every person born has recovered from nine months on life support.

Among the things that you, and you alone, are the absolute and final judge of is whether or not you are a success.

Nowadays you envy a manic-depressive. Half the time he's happy, the other half he's right.

Today's Parenting Tip: Treat a difficult child the way you would your boss at work. Praise his achievements, ignore his tantrums and resist the urge to sit him down and explain to him how his brain is not yet fully developed.

I don't know that there are haunted houses. I know that there are dark staircases and haunted people.