You can be sad recalling sad times, but if you really want to be sad, recall happy times.

Is it my imagination, or does shipping and handling settle a box of crackers more than it used to?

Nothing in life means anything unless someone cares, and the whole trick is to keep being that someone.

God answers first the prayers we should have prayed.

Sometimes two people need to step apart and make a space between that each might see the other anew, in a glance across a room or silhouetted against the moon.

I nod to a passing stranger, and the stranger nods back, and two human beings go off, feeling a little less anonymous.

The painter needs all the talent of the poet, plus hand-eye coordination.