It struck me as so hard to believe I was really getting what I wanted; it was always easier to feel the lack of something than the thing itself.
Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
Advice to my younger self:1 Start where you are with what you have2 Try not to hurt other people3 Take more chances4 If you fail, keep trying
To say nothing is saying something. You must denounce things you are against or one might believe that you support things you really do not.
I used to be a cool chick but I'm not anymore.
Life sometimes reminds us that it is sometimes heartless by giving something or someone we really need to someone who does not need or even want them or it.
Love is just a contact of no refusal.
The really frightening thing about middle age is the knowledge that you'll grow out of it.
A kiss a day keeps your wife's wrath away.
How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers names.