The difference between friends and pets is that friends we allow into our company, pets we allow into our solitude.

The trouble with 'a place for everything and everything in its place' is that there's always more everything than places.

You can hope for a miracle in your life, or you realize that your life is the miracle.

A watched child never learns.

In childhood, we yearn to be grown-ups. In old age, we yearn to be kids. It just seems that all would be wonderful if we didn't have to celebrate our birthdays in chronological order.

To a small child, the perfect granddad is unafraid of big dogs and fierce storms but absolutely terrified of the word "boo."

The lesson of Good Friday is to never lose hope — or at least give it 48 hours.