maybe some folks are alcoholics and others are just voluntary drunks …. maybe some have drinking problems, while others have problems enough to drink.

there is no love sincerer than the love of food.

discipline is remembering what you want most, not what you want now.

there’s not a word yet, for old friends who’ve just met.

all life is an experiment. the more experiments you make the better.

as a parent and as a human being; opportunities to love surround us. when we take those opportunities time seems to stop, and in that timelessness is where memories are made and beauty is beheld. we will never regret rising to the occasion. i believe it has something to do with the fact that god is love and we are made in his image. suffering isn’t what we are made for, but it can be fruitful in ways we could never imagine. we love because he first loved us.

a true friend laughs at your stories even when they’re not so good, and sympathizes with your troubles even when they’re not so bad.

delicious autumn! my very soul is wedded to it, and if i were a bird i would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.

if a guy wants to be with you he WILL make it happen.