Gifts of the heart can't be claimed by anyone except the giver.

But love, I’ve come to understand, is more than three words mumbled before bedtime. Love is sustained by action, a pattern of devotion in the things we do for each other every day.

What it's like to be a parent: It's one of the hardest things you'll ever do but in exchange it teaches you the meaning of unconditional love.

Experience had taught me that even the most precious memories fade with the passage of time.

Frugality, I've learned, has its own cost, one that sometimes lasts forever.

I came to the conclusion that unrealized hopes, even small ones, were always wrenching.

in all the years we spend together, I never once regretted the fact that I had chosen her and that she had chosen me as well.

I guess what I'm trying to say is that you are there, in everything I am, in everything I've ever done, and looking back, I know that I should have told you know much you've always meant to me.

Yet I have come to believe that while the past is unchangeable, our perceptions of is are malleable...

There's Only so much emotional super glue in a person's soul, that everything just stays broken.

Historic changes and challenges. Breakthroughs in human knowledge and opportunity. And yet, for vast numbers across the globe, the daily realities have not altered.

Once you have your characters, they tell you what to write, you don't tell them.

Awareness must be like the rays of the sun: extending everywhere, illuminating all.

The fictional treatment of biographical material - a treatment that for me is essential - is full of traps.

Today riches and honours have been lavished on me, but one gift has been lacking, the most important one of all, the only one that matters, the gift of youth.

Gratitude can turn a meal into a feast.

Without doubt, the most common weakness of all human beings is the habit of leaving their minds open to the negative influence of other people.

Do you know what I like about your program? Even when I'm running the vacuum, I can understand it.