War never stops; it only pauses.
To my Charley on his wedding day –…Here is what you are going to find out about marriage: you have to work at it together. And you have to love three things. You have to love:Each other.Your children...
To my Charley on his wedding day –I know you think these notes are silly. I have watched you scrunch your face over the years when I give them to you. But understand that sometimes I want to tell you...
To know you're going to die, and to be prepared for it at any time.That's better. That way you can actually be more involved in your lifewhile you're living.
This is a story about a family and, as there is a ghost involved, you might cal it a ghost story. But every family is a ghost story. The dead sit at out tables long after they have gone.
Things grow quickly are often more easily destroyed than those which take a long time.
There was a pier filled with thousands of people, men and women, fathers and mothers and children--so many children--children from the past and the present, children who had not yet been born, side by...
There is a time for hello and a time for good-bye. It's why the act of burying thing seems natural, but the act of digging them up does not.
There are five people you meet in Heaven. Each of us was in your life for a reason. You may not have known the reason at the time, and that is what Heaven is for. For understanding your life on earth.
Then why, I asked, is the world so fractured? Well, you can look at it this way. Would you want the world to all look alike? No. The genius of life is its variety. Even in our own faith, we have quest...
Then why do we do so many bad things? He sighed. Because one thing God gave us—and I’m afraid it’s at times a little too much—is free will. Freedom to choose. I believe he gave us everything needed to...
The wrongs we do open doors to do right.
The truth is, part of me is every age. I'm a 33 year old, I'm a 5 year old, I am a 37 year old, I am a 50 year old. I've been through all of them, and I know what it's like. I delight in being a child...
The tension of opposites? Life is a series of pulls back and forth. You want to do one thing, but you are bound to do something else. Something hurts you, yet you know it shouldn’t. You take certain t...
The subject was the meaning of life. It was taught from experience.The teaching goes on.
The old darkness has taken a seat alongside him. He is used to it by now, making room for it the way you make room for a commuter on a crowded bus.
The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.His voice dropped to a whisper. Let it come in. We think we don’t deserve love, we think if we let it in we’ll...
The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.
The manager once called me the 'best freak' in his stable, and, sad as it sounds, I took pride in that. When you are an outcast, even a tossed stone can be cherished.
The fact is, there is no foundation, no secure ground, upon which people may stand today if it isn’t the family. It’s become quite clear to me as I’ve been sick. If you don’t have the support and love...