If you haven’t time to respond to a tug at your pants leg, your schedule is too crowded.
In the happiest of our childhood memories, our parents were happy, too.
Having perfected our disguise, we spend our lives searching for someone we don’t fool.
To trade a childhood wonder for a plausible explanation – is there a worst trade one makes in life?
In a dark moment I ask, “How can anyone bring a child into this world?” And the answer rings clear, “Because there is no other world, and because the child has no other way into it.”
It’s still possible to be a cockeyed optimist these days – you just have to be a little more cockeyed.
You don’t want to get to the end of life’s journey and discover you never left the interstate.
In a soulmate we find not company but a completed solitude.
I don’t know that there are real ghosts and goblins, But there are always more trick-or-treaters than neighborhood kids.
Sometimes, in a moral struggle, we discover the right thing to do – just as, on some cold day long ago, we discovered mittens pinned to our coat sleeve.
Marriage is nature’s way of ensuring that a woman picks up some mothering experience before she has her first child.
Worse than telling a lie is spending the rest of your life staying true to a lie.
As a job seeker, remember this: You only lack experience if they want it done the same old way.
Among life’s regrets is all the time wasted being early for everything.
Sometimes two people need to step apart and make a space between that each might see the other anew, in a glance across a room or silhouetted against the moon.
A lover’s quarrel is always about every quarrel you ever had.
For lack of an occasional expression of love, a relationship strong at the seams can wear thin in the middle.
Know thyself, especially thyself after a couple of drinks.
Life is like sailing. You can use any wind to go in any direction.
Ever wonder where you’d end up if you took your dog for a walk and never once pulled back on the leash?