Parenting is something that happens mostly while you’re thinking of something else.

Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.

This will be Great Mam's last spring. Her last June apples. Her last fresh roasting ears from the garden.

She is too absorbed in the difficulties of being seventeen to want to hear the confusions of forty-four.

You cannot control the past but you have control over the life you build going forward.

Give men your ear, but not your heart. Show respect for those in power, but don't follow them blindly. Judge with logic and reason, but comment not.

The only rock I know that stays steady, the only institution I know that works, is the family.

For when we quaff the gen'rous bowl, Then sleep the sorrows of our soul. Let us drink the juice divine, The gift of Bacchus, god of wine. When I take wine, my cares go to rest.

I think that high art reposes on popular art, without one there cannot be another.

I don't have a very quick sense of humor.

Artists of the world arise - it's time to dump your dealers.

Though we have rightly applauded our ancestors for their spiritual achievements ... those of us who prevail today will have done no small thing.

Then people started using it more and more and it became the most downloaded software on the internet.

"Never speak of me in the past tense". My presence here will be many times greater without the burden of my tortured body.