My eyesight's gone, my reflexes are shot, and I can't stay awake, but thank God I can still drive.

The more side roads you stop to explore, the less likely that life will pass you by.

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

Learn to listen. It's amazing the ideas that pop into your head while people are saying them into your ear.

What do we ask of friendship except to be taken for what we pretend to be - and without having to pretend.

Parenthood is the passing of a baton, followed by a lifelong disagreement as to who dropped it.

If indeed the death of a child is part of a larger plan, you wonder if God ever considered a smaller plan.