Believe in miracles but don't depend on them. When you hear kind word spoken about a friend, tell him so. Spoil your spouse, not your children. Never make fun of someone who speaks broken English. It means they know another language. To help your children turn out well, spend twice as much time with them and half as much money.

I think anybody who goes away finds you appreciate home more when you return.

Like a French poem is life; being only perfect in structure when with the masculine rhymes mingled the feminine are.

Sooner or later we all discover that the important moments in life are not the advertised ones, not the birthdays, the graduations, the weddings, not the great goals achieved. The real milestones are less prepossessing. They come to the door of memory unannounced, stray dogs that amble in, sniff around a bit and simply never leave. Our lives are measured by these.

The first thing I do in any town I come to is ask if it has a bookstore.

Living the past is a dull and lonely business; looking back strains the neck muscles, causing you to bump into people not going your way.