If I had known how wonderful it would be to have grandchildren I'd have had them first.

A good friend is a connection to life - a tie to the past, a road to the future, the key to sanity in a totally insane world.

A mother becomes a true grandmother the day she stops noticing the terrible things her children do because she is so enchanted with the wonderful things her grandchildren do.

Grandchildren are the dots that connect the lines from generation to generation.

Men are taught to apologize for their weaknesses, women for their strengths.

If I had known how wonderful it would be to have grandchildren, I'd have had them first.

The single and most dangerous word to be spoken in business is no. The second most dangerous word is yes. It is possible to avoid saying either.

All friends are not for life, but if you have a true friend, you have a life.

Men are taught to apologise for their weaknesses, women for their strengths.

Did I choose you? Did you choose me? And what difference does it make? All that really matters, friend, is that we chose together.

there is no noise louder than a silent phone.

You're mine, Echo, and I'll treasure you forever.

You won't lose anything admitting that you've failed or you are struggling just remember not to dwell on that reality.

Your experiences will be yours alone. But truth and best friendship will rarely if ever disappoint you.

When I understand that everything happening to me is to make me more Christlike, it resolves a great deal of anxiety.

I say three prayers every night to make sure that God knows I thank him so much.

I liked you better when you were this timid little kid. What happened?” “I started living with you guys.” “Oh, right.

Our practice is not to clear up the mystery. It is to make the mystery clear.

A pretty face, don't make a pretty heart.

Violence can behave like a disease. That insight gives a different frame of reference that is designed to take the judgment out of it, to take the good-versus-bad-people view out of it.

My images are not images of reality, but show a kind of second reality, the image of the image.