The hardest thing to accept as a parent is that you cannot apply the bandage before the bruise.

Happiness is having a dream you cannot let go of and a partner who would never ask you to.

We realize we can't have everything, and so begins the mad dash to have everything else.

You can as easily love without trusting as you can hug without embracing.

Among life's regrets is all the time wasted being early for everything.

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

It is when there is nothing you can say or do to help that a friend needs you the most.