You need to decide what works for you. But ultimately, hold out for adoration and respect

I wondered then if there could ever be trust in a relationship based from the outset upon deceiving other people.

Life has a habit of making the easy desperately difficult, and the hardest choices so easy as to be no choice at all.

One unforeseen advantage of having a  child was that it gave me the excuse to talk to myself to my heart's content and pretend it was for my daughters benefit.

Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest accomplishment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.

The tree of life is hope.

All too often we fail to ask what we are trying to sustain. Ultimately, sustainability must be measured by the endurance of thriving human communities.

The race is long but in the end it is only with YOURSELF.

Life has got to be lived - that's all there is to it. At seventy, I would say the advantage is that you take life more calmly. You know that 'this, too, shall pass!'

Sunflowers are like people to me.

Swans are majestic, beautiful looking creatures. With really ugly temperaments.

Growing up, I always thought of Detroit as a basketball town because of the Pistons, but everyone says it's really, at its core, a football town.

I was just tired of losing... Life was passing me by.

The ultimate ignorance is the rejection of something you know nothing about, yet refuse to investigate.