Maybe what I wanted was stupid. Maybe it wasn’t even something I could have. But, still it was mine. I didn’t think I could sacrifice my dreams, no matter how much my family meant to...

Suddenly it seemed to me that I looked back from a great distance on that smile and saw it all again – the smile and the day, the whole sunny, sad, funny, wonderful day and...

I did not have an opportunity to speak privately with Peter until just as he was leaving, when he handed me one of the Burns song-sheets and (with a most earnest look) told me to...

Who will kiss you? Who will rock you to sleep?” His voice was slow, drowsy.”You never did,” I said, trying to tease him. “You were more father to me than my father, but you never...

Heritage was everything: it was a golden skeleton key, gleaming with power, able to get the wielder through any number of locked doors; it was the christening of the marriage bed with virgin blood on...

With every choice you create the life you’ll live; with every decision you design it.

Gran follows recipes by looking at picture—to the eye, delicious; to the tongue, boiled socks. Makes you wanna cry really.

It is impossible to maintain fantasy in the face of true emotional intimacy. Fantasy alienates, disconnects, and isolates people. Fantasy and cults isolate people. Fantasy is a cult. Weather that fantasy is nationalism, racism, or...

The same way minks get minks!

Your relationship with your brother will be, in many ways, the most complex and bewildering of all the interpersonal connections you will form. An older brother is both authority and peer, friend and bitter enemy,...

A question that always makes me hazy is it me or are the others crazy’Albert Einstein

I have learned that to be with those I like is enough

Look forward to the wonderment of growing up, raising a family and driving by the gas station where the popular kids now work.

Sadie,” he said forlornly, “when you become a parent, you may understand this. One of my hardest jobs as a father, one of my greatest duties, was to realize that my own dreams, my own...

Being related to a person doesn’t necessarily mean you have to be family and being family doesn’t necessarily mean you have to be related.

Love is always a battle.

She was few inches taller than him and when for the first time her promising eyes met with his, he knew it would be more than friendship. He was too young to name that feeling...

Nobody has ever taken a photograph of something they want to forget. We can build a wall of happy Kodak moments around ourselves, a wall of our Christmases, birthdays, baby showers and weddings, but we...

Without this flock, I would be worthless. Without the people in this flock, I’d be empty. Without the people who started this flock, I’d be dead.

A best friend is the only one that walks into your life when the world has walked out.

The problem with people that ignore people they dislike is they can’t ignore them. Anger carries a person in your mind forever, whether you choose to speak to them or not. Therefore, don’t mistake prosperity...

If your love for another person doesn’t include loving yourself then your love is incomplete.

Home isn’t where you’re from, it’s where you find light when all grows dark.

No one fights dirtier or more brutally than blood; only family knows it’s own weaknesses, the exact placement of the heart. The tragedy is that one can still live with the force of hatred, feel...

The dysfunction was not the character of one person, it was the split of family by divorce, with the ripples felt for eternity by bloodline.

Always follow your dreams with confidence and conviction, don’t fall for the trap of dream killers

Money spent, will never out value spent time.

If Christian teachers wish to recall Christian people to domesticity the first necessity is to stop telling lies about home life and to substitute realistic teaching.

Divided we are as people but if we stand together and fight we as a race will unite.

Ordinary men earns responsibility towards their family, extraordinary men earns duty towards their nation.

Loving someone is not tough but the real courage is to be with that person forever.

I’m inspired by the people I meet in my travels–hearing their stories, seeing the hardships they overcome, their fundamental optimism and decency. I’m inspired by the love people have for their children. And I’m inspired...

And now at the airport, after shaking hands with everybody, waving good-bye, I think about all the different ways we leave people in this world. Cheerily waving good-bye to some at airports, knowing we’ll never...

We don’t get to choose our blood families, but we do get to decide how to talk to them, how much to tell them, and how open to be with them about the core of...

That’s right”, she says, wiping tears from her cheeks. “You weren’t with me that time I walked in on them doing the deed. Seriously Freudian horror.””You saw your parents at the best,” Mom murmurs, before...

Os homens têm experiência de séculos a mais que as mulheres em: malsentir, antever e precaver. Quando levadas ao mundo do trabalho “masculino”, as mulheres aceleram seu desenvolvimento nessa mesma direção e, dessa forma, as...

You’ll forget your inner peace, forget that it comes from impermanence. From knowing that everything will break. And only reason can right you.

Mwalimu Julius Kambarage Nyerere alikuwa baba kwa familia yake. Kwa Tanzania alikuwa mlezi; wa ndoto ya haki, amani, uzalendo, ujamaa, na uhuru.

It is possible the world is divided into three genders – there are men, there are women and then there are women who choose to have nothing to do with children. How about men without...

My schooling not only failed to teach me what it professed to be teaching, but prevented me from being educated to an extent which infuriates me when I think of all I might have learned...

Granma’s name was Bonnie Bee. I knew that when I heard him late at night say, ‘I kin ye, Bonnie Bee,’ he was saying, ‘I love ye,’ for the feeling was in the words.

Come on. We must have a little pity. Do you know what we’re talking about now?…When a man supports his relatives by his labor, he has no right to sacrifice himself. That is deserting his...

Sometimes, Chelsea, I wonder, how you get by from day to day. It’s a good thing you’re so voluptuous.

It is impossible to estimate full influence of the reading of the Word in a home day after day and year after year. It filters into the hearts of the young. It is absorbed into...

If we allow our American mindset of consumption to spill into our understanding of what a Christian is, we are in danger of living irrespective of world family.

Ohana means family – no one gets left behind, and no one is ever forgotten.’

I’m 30-years-old, and I still can’t get out from under my father’s shadow. He’s really tall, so maybe I’ll just ask him to move over a few feet.

Children naturally believe without question and absorb knowledge at an incredible rate; since there is no other frame of reference; they believe their parental reality, true or false.

The French Revolution was the best thing to ever happen inside a croissant the shape of the Fertile Crescent, with a flaky crust like a politician with dandruff.” Of course, when Orafoura told me this...

I think I’ll add a little chili powder.” ~ Seth Asa, age 37From Dinnertimes: Stories of American Life, 1912 to 2012