Relationships are at the heart of your wellbeing and happiness. Nurture them and they will nurture you.

Friendship is not a gift, but is the result of hard work.

Friendship is a plant which must be often watered.

My greatest blessing has been the birth of my son. My next greatest blessing has been my ability to turn people into children of mine.

She looked up at him. She could remember holding him on her lap, reading a story, kneeling down beside him. Then came the years she spent on her knees because she was concerned how he might turn out. Those years were long gone.

No matter what the situation you're in, if you're raised in a loving environment, that's the most important thing.

To cure sometimes, to relieve often, to comfort always.

Marriage, the family unit, was the "original Department of Health, Education and Welfare."

You have two gardens: your own garden and that of your beloved. First, you have to take of your own garden and master the art of gardening.

What matters is how well we have loved.

But nothing on this earth is guaranteed, when you get right down to it, you know? I've been thinking about that. About how your kids aren't really YOURS, they're just these people that you try to keep an eye on, and hope you'll all grow up someday to like each other and still be in one piece. What I mean is, everything you get is really just on loan. Does that make sense? Sure, I said. Like library books. Sooner or later they've all got to go back into the nightdrop.

Keeping secrets from young ears only plants seeds in between them