We never give up wanting things for ourselves, but there comes a day when what we want for ourselves is someone else's happiness.

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.

Life without Music would be a Mistake. Life without Books would be Catastrophic!

Love goes through all times

The greater a child’s terror, and the earlier it is experienced, the harder it becomes to develop a strong and healthy sense of self.

It is always some consolation in sorrow to feel that it is shared, and any burden laid on several is carried more lightly or removed.

I am not a party girl.

The Beach Boys are not a superstar group. The music is the superstar of the group.

The difference between style and fashion is quality.

I worry about a democracy having nuclear weapons as much as a dictatorship having nuclear weapons.

I had never imagined myself, nor aspired to be, a member of a royal family. I wanted to be in the Peace Corps, not a princess!

All the words I use in my stories can be found in the dictionary-it's just a matter of arranging them into the right sentences.