Parenting is a stage of life's journey where the milestones come about every fifty feet.

Alexandros of Antioch took a block of marble and chiseled away from it everything that was not his masterpiece, the Venus de Milo. If you will chisel away one fault from your character every day, you may discover - a) that you're actually a statue of Margaret Thatcher. b) that you're still just a block of marble. c) that there are pigeon droppings on your shoes. d) that you, too, are a hidden masterpiece.

There is no harder thing to give up than the thing that was supposed to make you happy.

It’s hard to make up your bed while you’re still sleeping in it. Hard to make up your mind for the same reason.

History is man's best guess as to what the past would look like if everything had happened in chronological order.

The older you get, the fewer things it seems too late to do.

It is the first purpose of hope to make hopelessness bearable.