Christmas shows us the ties that bind us together, threads of love and caring, woven in the simplest and strongest way within the family.

Nobody gets everything in this life. You decide your priorities and you make your choices. I'd decided long ago that any cake I had would be eaten.

I loved it, but social reality impeded. Now I wander in here at 9 in the morning or so, and come back for a while in the afternoon. I am a very lenient boss.

Whenever things sound easy, it turns out there's one part you didn't hear.

Who's a boy gonna talk to if not his mother?

The trouble with real life is, there's no reset button.

In order to hold your faith intact be sure it's kept unsullied by fact.

When the phone rang, Parker was in the garage, killing a man.

Hoke Moseley is a magnificently battered hero. Willeford brings him to us lean and hard and brand-new.

A friend of mine, now retired, was then a major exec at a major bank, and one of her jobs, the last four years, was the farewell interview.

What did Jesus Christ say to the Teamsters? 'Do nothing till I get back.

There is a virtue, I must presume, in shamelessness, since by placing on parade the things one does not know, one discovers that no one else knows either.

That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.

If I'm experiencing a different thing every day and seeing a new environment every day, it can create a different mood or different feeling.

My best successes came on the heels of failures.

Shame is the power we give others to wield over us.

Under the tropic is our language spoke, And part of Flanders hath receiv'd our yoke.

Not only do you have to put yourself in harms way in service of your country, you have to leave your families at home. It is a great sacrifice.

Women are more sure of themselves today. They don't have to emulate the way men dress.

Computerization eliminates the middleman

Retiring is getting ready to die.