There is a strong chance that siblings who turn out well were hassled by the same parents.

How often in life we complete a task that was beyond the capability of the person we were when we started it.

Do not call any work menial until you have watched a proud person do it.

Be it human or animal, touch is a life-giving thing. Has anyone ever had a stroke or a heart attack while cozied up with a pet? I doubt it.

If you can't forgive and forget, pick one.

In many areas of understanding, none so much as in our understanding of God, we bump up against a simplicity so profound that we must assign complexities to it to comprehend it at all. It is mindful of how we paste decals to a sliding glass door to keep from bumping our nose against it.

Overheard in a Washington D.C. church confessional: "Bless me Father, for sins have been committed."