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

Do not be surprised when those who ignore the rules of grammar also ignore the law. After all, the law is just so much grammar.

The strongest marriage is between two who seek the same God, the strongest friendship between two who flee the same devil.

It's still possible to be a cockeyed optimist these days - you just have to be a little more cockeyed.

Once a man has won a woman's love, the love is his forever. He can only lose the woman.

The average pencil is seven inches long, with just a half-inch eraser - in case you thought optimism was dead In fact maybe there is a lesson there for how we should approach the future...with fourteen parts optimism - anticipating what could go right and the benefits - and one part pessimism - anticipating what could go wrong so we can avoid them.

I would love to go back and travel the road not taken, if I knew at the end of it I'd find the same set of grandkids.