If I had one wish for my children it would be that each of them would reach for goals that have meaning for them as individuals.

Marriage ain't easy but nothing that's worth much ever is.

Every time I think that I'm getting old and gradually going to the grave something else happens.

Sure I'm for helping the elderly. I'm going to be old myself someday.

I don't think about risks much. I just do what I want to do. If you gotta go you gotta go.

The spirit cannot exist in a sealed void. It will eventually devour itself or waste away.

If heaven is within you, everywhere you go you will find heaven!

A writer is always working with whatever she's managed to store in the brainpan or puzzle out about the world.

I still felt fondness for her - fondness, that pleasant, detached mix of admiration and sentiment, appreciation and nostalgia.

Do your little bit of good where you are; its those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.

Adolescents are like cockroaches: They come out the minute you leave town, crawl the walls, feed indiscriminately, reproduce alarmingly unless drugged, and will certainly outlast you.

For hearts where wakened love doth lurk, How fine, how blest a thing is work! For work does good when reasons fail.

Life is nothing until it is lived; but it is yours to make sense of, and the of it is nothing other than the sense you choose.

It always seems crazy to tell people what to expect. That never works! So, I don't know what to say, other than that they can expect me.

Who are you now? Who have you decided to become? Make this decision consciously. Make it carefully. Make it powerfully. Then act upon it.