Why try to explain miracles to your kids when you can just have them plant a garden?

I don't know that there are real ghosts and goblins, but there are always more trick-or-treaters than neighborhood kids.

Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realise they were the big things.

The imagination is a palette of bright colors. You can use it to touch up memories ? or you can use it to paint dreams.

That portion of reality that can be composed within a frame can be understood.

If minutes were kept of a family gathering, they would show that Members not Present and Subjects Discussed were one and the same.

If minutes were kept of a family gathering, they would show that members not present and subjects discussed were one and the same.

A child seldom needs a good talking to as a good listening to.

In a household of toddlers and pets, we discover this rule of thumb about happy families, that they are least two-thirds incontinent.

Nostalgia is a process by which dreams become memories without ever coming true.

The object of most prayers is to wangle an advance on good intentions.

So often in life a new chapter awaits. You ride off into the sunset and discover it's the sunrise.

A watched child never learns.

Two things are owed to truthfulness lasting marriages and short friendships.

A parent's love is whole no matter how many times divided.

What is it that we all believe in that we cannot see or hear or feel or taste or smell -- this invisible thing that heals all sorrows, reveals all lies and renews all hope? What is it that has always been and always will be, from whose bosom we all came and to which we will all return? Most call it Time. A few realize that it is God.

Life starts out as partly destiny and partly free will, but then you have kids, and it's all destiny.

Present yourself always
As who you would be,
And that is the person
The world will see.

How slight a nod it would take, how bare a smile, to give everyone you meet today a sense of worth.

There are people who live their whole lives on the default settings, never realizing you can customize.