It is the fancy of every mortal that being cradled in the arms of mortality is a safe place for the time being.

If God had intended me to make excuses for who I am, He would have given me better excuses.

Hope is a walk through a flowering meadow. One does not require that it lead anywhere.

Do not ask that your kids live up to your expectations. Let your kids be who they are, and your expectations will be in breathless pursuit.

I would love to go back and travel the road not taken, if I knew at the end of it I'd find the same set of grandkids.

Beyond our most stubborn misperception lies often our fondest dream.

The world knows how to straighten out a spoiled child but never makes it up to a child deprived.