“So many television marriages -that playing out of lives against a background of the tube.Instead of two lives filing the room,There are their two lives and the eleven o'clock news withConstant commercial interruption.Instead of what you say and what I say.You don't laugh with me;I don't laugh with you.All the wit comes pouring out of the tube.And we laugh at it together.The more we avoid talkingthe more passive the relationship becomes.Television permits us to walk through lifewith minor speaking parts.And the more we fail to speak,the more difficult speaking becomes”

“Don't worry whether or not I am now happy. Today is only chapter one, we have yet to write a book.”

“Don't get so involved in the duties of your life and your children that you forget the pleasure. Remember why you had children.”

“So, if you have a grandma, thank the good Lord above, and give your grandmamma hugs and kisses, for grandmothers are to love.”

“While motherhood may indeed require a woman who says 'yes', grandmotherhood does not.”

“The longer children live on the street, the more they realize the meaninglessness of words. They don't say things such as 'Thank you' and 'you are my friend.' They'd rather show through their actions what is inside. It is more difficult for these street kids to speak than to act.”

“Men are taught to apologize for their weaknesses, women for their strengths.”