So I said to myself, "There but for the grace of God go I," only to realize I was looking in a mirror and had seriously overestimated the grace of God.

I nod to a passing stranger, and the stranger nods back, and two human beings go off, feeling a little less anonymous.

What a snapshot is to your life, your life is to eternity, so wouldn't it be nice if eternity captured you smiling?

The object of most prayers is to wangle an advance on good intentions.

You live long enough in a world spinning on its axis, you learn to spin in the same direction.

I count myself lucky, having long ago won a lottery paid to me in seven sunrises a week for life.

There is a lesson we learn early and harmlessly, or late and traumatically - that there are things we can break that our parents can't fix.