The heart will turn to a prune if love is always by the numbers. How will you know if someone really loves you if they only meet your expectations and not your needs?

Love is the grand prize and the garbage heap. Love is a spiritual root canal and the only thing that makes life worth living. Love is a little taste of always and a big bite of nothing. And love is everything in between these extremes.

I've always thought anyone can make money. Making a life worth living, that's the real test.

Weddings seem to be magnets for mishap and for whatever craziness lurks in family closets. In more ways than one, weddings bring out the ding-dong on everybody involved.

It is the chair in honor of all those who, however competently, embrace the impossible. Sit in that chair someday.

Anything not worth doing is worth not doing well.

Play fair. Don't hit people. Say you're sorry when you hurt somebody.