The most fundamental winning formula is to bet on human decency and be patient.

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

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

In the end, who among us does not choose to be a little less right to be a little less lonely.

Dare to be imperfect and one day there will tug at your sleeve a soulmate.

I've been looking over the list of spring chores I made up last fall, and darned if they aren't fall chores, after all.

In the end, no thought is unthinkable, no problem unshrinkable, no two strangers unlinkable.