As important as shared memories is the silent agreement that certain things never happened.

Love is at first a set of delusions, which, as time goes by, are discarded like training wheels, and you love truly.

Alexandros of Antioch took a block of marble and chiseled away from it everything that was not his masterpiece, the Venus de Milo. If you will chisel away one fault from your character every day, you may discover - a) that you're actually a statue of Margaret Thatcher. b) that you're still just a block of marble. c) that there are pigeon droppings on your shoes. d) that you, too, are a hidden masterpiece.

A child seldom needs a good talking to as a good listening to.

If you have a mom, there is nowhere you are likely to go where a prayer has not already been.

How we long to remove the clutter from our lives not realizing that the clutter is our lives.

As I may or may not say to the Lord on Judgment Day, "You ask a lot of questions for someone who has so much explaining to do"