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

Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.

Cherish the friend who tells you a harsh truth, wanting ten times more to tell you a loving lie.

You can spend too much time wondering which of identical twins is the more alike.

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

Ever wonder what crime you committed that you are confined to a small enclosure above your sinuses, under permanent skull arrest?

If minutes were kept of a family gathering, they would show that "Members not Present" and "Subjects Discussed" were one and the same.

It finally happened. I got the GPS lady so confused, she said, "In one-quarter mile, make a legal stop and ask directions.

For the most part, we carnivores do not eat other carnivores. We prefer to eat our vegetarian friends.

On a windswept hill by a billowing sea, my destiny sits and waits for me.

It is not that love is blind. It is that love sees with a painter's eye, finding the essence that renders all else background.

Fear no one except the One.

To expect a personality to survive the disintegration of the brain is like expecting a cricket club to survive when all of its members are dead.

I'm not at the point in my career where I want to rebuild.

In literature as in ethics, there is danger, as well as glory, in being subtle. Aristocracy isolates us.

I care about money, very much. I want it. I don't ever want to be without it. My mother once said about me, 'Elaine has to have money.'

I don't like my men to be too ornate. I like them to stand back and let their women shine, and they should really wear the pants in the relationship.

History is the zoology of the human race.

I tried to make it as real for them as possible. The thing about being reality is that reality is not always fun. They did a big piece of growing up that day.

The secret to a really great friendship is just creating fun memories whenever you're with that person.