What you must accept as a parent is that you cannot always be there for your child without sometimes ruining everything.

The secret to happiness is to put the burden of proof on unhappiness.

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

The trick to liking who you are is not to hate too much the person it turned out you weren't.

Happiness is having a dream you cannot let go of and a partner who would never ask you to.

You spend 90% of your adult life hoping for a long rest and the last 10% trying to convince the Lord that you're actually not that tired.

I find in old age that it's possible to revisit the past, the one requirement being that you come as you are.