What is the fire in our belly but the eternal flame of a thousand ancestors.

Time brings an end to everything. We should not mistake for a tragedy what is no more than the passage of time.

In sinners and repenters you have the original division of labor.

Yes, to be a good parent, you have to sacrifice, but this is not a requirement of parenting, it is a requirement of being good at something.

It is the fancy of every mortal that being cradled in the arms of mortality is a safe place for the time being.

Looking back on our lives, we invariably find that the person we pretended to be is the person we became.

A toast once heard: "To my big sister, who never found her second Easter egg until I'd found my first."