From an aunt, long ago: "Death has come for me many times but finds me always in my lovely garden and leaves me there, I think, as an excuse to return.

Once you become the mommy or daddy in your child's world, it is the only world in which you exist, no matter how much you fancy there is a separate world of your own.

The thing about a friendly smile is not just that it makes people like you but that it makes them like themselves.

Love thy neighbor, and if it requires that you bend your understanding of the truth, the Truth will understand.

In the best of relationships you have two people who cannot think of anything that was not part of the deal.

At my age, you not only have bittersweet memories, you make bittersweet plans.

How do you achieve success? Well, for one thing, you don't define it before you achieve it.