A family stitched together with love seldom unravels.

If family violence teaches children that might makes right at home, how will we hope to cure the futile impulse to solve worldly conflicts with force?

We need old friends to help us grow old and new friends to help us stay young.

We mothers are learning to mark our mothering success by our daughters' lengthening flight.

Boys don't make passes at female smart asses.

If the family were a fruit, it would be an orange, a circle of sections, held together but separable - each segment distinct.

A toy has no gender and no idea of whether a girl or boy is playing with it.

If the family were a boat, it would be a canoe that makes no progress unless everyone paddles.

If knowledge is power, clandestine knowledge is power squared; it can be withheld, exchanged, and leveraged.

Friends can be said to "fall in like" with as profound a thud as romantic partners fall in love.

No labourer in the world is expected to work for room, board, and love -except the housewife.

A man ought to read just as inclination leads him

When did you grow a back bone?" Cassius stopped pacing and actually smiled a little.Kendall wasn't appeased "I borrowed Jory's

You don't really get to choose who you fall in love with. Love chooses you.

I believe it's a fact of life that what we have is less important than what we make out of what we have.

Memory is a slippery thing. When something terrible happens to you, like the loss of someone you love...memory can turn into a soft blanket that hides you from the loss.

The biggest thing I learned was that the harder you work for the thing that you love the most, then everything that you want is going to come true.

With Taiwan, it took about 40 years to go from an authoritarian to a democratic society.

There were also other things, but this was a big factor. It's sad, because she [Eve Plumb] was my best friend. We went through a lot together.

We must understand that in order 'to do', we must first learn 'to be', that is to say, in the sweet company of Jesus in adoration.

How strange or odd some'er I bear myself, As I perchance hereafter shall think meet To put an antic disposition on.