If this was adulthood the only improvement she could detect in her situation was that she could now eat dessert without eating her vegetables.

Any mother could perform the jobs of several air-traffic controllers with ease.

That's the risk you take if you change: that people you've been involved with won't like the new you. But other people who do will come along.

Just as you began to feel that you could make good use of time, there was no time left to you.

A snake will always be a snake, even if you put a chain around its neck and try to make it walk upright.

Inspiration never arrived when you were searching for it.

One didn't issue instructions to comets. Grown children did what they had to do, and parents could only grit their teeth and watch and pray for them to get through it.

What a surprise to find you could shift the contents of your head like rearranging furniture in a room.

The requirements of romantic love are difficult to satisfy in the back seat of a Dodge Dart.

Dying was apparently a weaning process; all the attachments to familiar people and objects have to be undone.

The man who has no inner life is a slave of his surroundings, as the barometer is the obedient servant of the air.

Make the tough choice

Whatever you focus upon, increases......When you focus on the things you need, you'll find those needs increasing......A grateful perspective brings happiness and abundance into a person's life.

The outrageous is the reasonable, if introduced politely.

Life is a constant oscillation between the sharp horns of dilemmas.

Career is important, but nothing really supersedes my roles as a mother.

My sister, my mother and I are great friends. We have always valued our immediate family immensely, something we learned from my father.

No matter how hard you try to be present at home, you're always doing the things that you have to do.

No one person invented Mulberry. The knowledge that we had to have this floating harbor slowly grew.

I looked at my shoulder and saw a javelin stuck in it. I was in shock.

I am a socially awkward mandork. (Nick)