The trouble with having a stubbornness contest with your kids is that they have your stubbornness gene.

If you keep rephrasing the question, it gradually becomes the answer.

It can be said of optimism that while sometimes mistaken, it is never sadly mistaken.

What a blessing to be alone with your thoughts when so many are alone with their inability to think.

What greater blessing to give thanks for at a family gathering than the family and the gathering.

I wish to die knowing that I took a fleeting instant of eternity and fashioned from it a lifetime.

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.