Conspicuously absent from the Ten Commandments is any obligation of parent to child. We must suppose that God felt it unnecessary to command by law what He had ensured by love.

It is easy to mistake being ready for a wedding with being ready for marriage.

Why try to explain miracles to your kids when you can just have them plant a garden.

I believe in a real, physical world. I figure if the world existed only in my mind, it would pay more attention to me.

Life is a series of family photos in which eventually you stop showing up.

Life is a process by which a few desperate longings morph into a thousand meaningless wants.

The average pencil is seven inches long, with just a half-inch eraser - in case you thought optimism was dead In fact maybe there is a lesson there for how we should approach the future...with fourteen parts optimism - anticipating what could go right and the benefits - and one part pessimism - anticipating what could go wrong so we can avoid them.