I guess, when you get down to it, a loving touch compensates for an unskilled hand about everywhere except in an airplane cockpit.

An optimist is someone who figures that if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it's the bluebird of happiness.

Our most difficult task as a friend is to offer understanding when we don't understand.

I look into the faces of people struggling with their own lives, and I do not see strangers.

We are each of us born into the arms of mortality, the Lord recognizing our need to be held.

The hardest thing to learn in the game of love is when to fold a winning hand.

If God had intended us to be alone, there would be more pleasure in massaging our own shoulders.