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

Nowadays you envy a manic-depressive. Half the time he's happy, the other half he's right.

Wherever a mom goes, a prayer has been already there.

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

Looking back, you realize that everything would have explained itself if you had only stopped interrupting.

No man is so idle that he cannot rouse himself just enough to get in the way of a busy person.

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