"There are all kinds of futures. There is a hoped-for future, there is a feared future, there is a predictable future, and there is an unimagined future."

“I have cooked turkeys in my day but when Mom`s around I let her do it.”

“I believe every...man remembers the girl he thinks he should have married. She reappears to him in his lonely moments, or he sees her in the face of a young girl in the park, buying a snowball under an oak tree by the baseball diamond. But she belongs to back there, to somebody else, and that thought sometimes rends your heart in a way that you never share with anyone else.”

“What can a sales person say to somebody to get them to buy a product that they already use every day if they don't like it? Nothing.”

“People without hope not only don't write novels, but what is more to the point, they don't read them.”

“It flew towards the roof of the net like a Wurlitzer”

“We prefer one room in Rangoon to six in Boston. We feel that we are highly blessed.”

“The war made possible for us the solution of a whole series of problems that could never have been solved in normal times.”

“Young people need something stable to hang on to - a culture connection, a sense of their own past, a hope for their own future. Most of all, they need what grandparents can give them.”

Source : Jay Kesler (1993). “Grandparenting: The Agony and the Ecstasy”, Vine Books