The trouble with learning to parent on the job is that your child is the teacher.

Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.

Cherish the friend who tells you a harsh truth, wanting ten times more to tell you a loving lie.

You can spend too much time wondering which of identical twins is the more alike.

What greater blessing to give thanks for at a family gathering than the family and the gathering.

Ever wonder what crime you committed that you are confined to a small enclosure above your sinuses, under permanent skull arrest?

If minutes were kept of a family gathering, they would show that "Members not Present" and "Subjects Discussed" were one and the same.

It finally happened. I got the GPS lady so confused, she said, "In one-quarter mile, make a legal stop and ask directions.

For the most part, we carnivores do not eat other carnivores. We prefer to eat our vegetarian friends.

On a windswept hill by a billowing sea, my destiny sits and waits for me.

It is not that love is blind. It is that love sees with a painter's eye, finding the essence that renders all else background.

When distrust is so profound that it makes you wary of every word dripping from honeyed lips...It sharpens your instincts...Now for a woman, THAT is a powerful weapon...

I appreciate my music is famous, but I'd rather my face wasn't so that I can just live a normal life.

Every policy is shaped by two forces: background analysis and foreground politics. The political forces are loud, self-serving and, in the case of energy policy, well known.

You'll have a lot more respect for a bird after you try making a nest.

Most men are less afraid of ghosts than of facts.

The purest suffering bears and carries in its train the purest understanding.

I do not look upon human beings as good or bad.

Sometimes it's more important to change politicians than light bulbs.

I had cottage cheese for lunch and a glass of wine when I got home tonight.

Fixing your heartbreak by getting into another relationship is not the way to live your life - you need to live it on your terms for a while.