Occupation: Author Birth: August 7, 1942
You get old and you realize there are no answers, just stories..
Intelligence is like four-wheel drive. It only allows you to get stuck in more remote places..
They say such nice things about people at their funerals that it makes me sad that I'm going to miss mine by just a few days..
We'd all be alot happier if we'd stop assuming we're supposed to be happy..
It's a shallow life that doesn't give a person a few scars..
Life is unjust and this is what makes it so beautiful. Every day is a gift. Be brave and take hold of it..
One day Donald Trump will discover that he is owned by Lutheran Brotherhood and must re negotiate his debt load with a committee of silent Norwegians….
When you wage war on the public schools, you're attacking the mortar that holds the community together. You're not a conservative, you're a vandal..
Nothing you do for children is ever wasted..
Humor is not a trick, not jokes. Humor is a presence in the world - like grace - and shines on everybody..
A book is a gift you can open again and again..
Anyone who thinks sitting in church can make you a Christian must also think that sitting in a garage can make you a car..
Thank you, God, for this good life and forgive us if we do not love it enough..
A cruise ship is a floating town of lazy people..
Sometimes there is nothing you can do, and in those times, you must do something anyway..
Some luck lies in not getting what you thought you wanted but getting what you have, which once you have got it you may be smart enough to see is wha….
A person cannot coast along in old destructive habits year after year and accept whatever comes along. A person must stand up on her own two legs and….
The party of Lincoln and Liberty was transmogrified into the party of hairy-backed swamp developers and corporate shills, faith-based economists, fun….
Your life is a work of art, and in the end, the underlying theme of great art is bravery and hope and love..
Bravery and adventure! That's the ticket! Don't sit and gather moss. Get up, get out, do what you dream of doing, and if it doesn't work, it doesn't ….
We are great mysteries. No matter what we imagine we may know, even for all the facts we might gather, we don't know each other. Never do, probably n….