What you don't realize as a kid is that if your parents are always going to be there for you, they aren't going to be somewhere else doing exciting and glamorous things.

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

What we have earned by the sweat of our brow, we defend with pride. What we have gained by the accident of birth, we guard with prejudice.

There is a limit to how much you can change to be liked for who you really are.

Always laugh off a slight insult, so that people will understand what it means when you're not laughing.

In the end, no thought is unthinkable, no problem unshrinkable, no two strangers unlinkable.

I guess, when you get down to it, a loving touch compensates for an unskilled hand about everywhere except in an airplane cockpit.