You can awaken each day to obligations you never chose — or you can decide now to choose them.

As important in a trusting relationship as the truths you share are the lies you never have to tell.

Just once it might be instructive to pretend you're accepting an award for failure, just to see who you would thank.

Perhaps we are given a mom that we might take into death the memory of a lullaby.

Wealth and wisdom are seldom combined, for the person who achieves one no longer desires the other.

What is a mom but the sunshine of our days and the north star of our nights.

There is always sufficient reason for despair, but there is never sufficient purpose.