There has never been a better raconteur than Jesus of Nazareth.

What we are seeking so frantically elsewhere may turn out to be the horse we have been riding all along.

All human beings have an innate need to hear and tell stories and to have a story to live by. religion, whatever else it has done, has provided one of the main ways of meeting this abiding need.

Not to decide is to decide.

Sermons remain one of the last forms of public discourse where it is culturally forbidden to talk back.

If at first you don't succeed, blame your parents.

Children in a family are like flowers in a bouquet: there's always one determined to face in an opposite direction from the way the arranger desires.

The quickest way to know a woman is to go shopping with her.

No one knows his true character until he has run out of gas, purchased something on the installment plan and raised an adolescent.

Weather means more when you have a garden. There's nothing like listening to a shower and thinking how it is soaking in around your green beans.

Parents are often so busy with the physical rearing of children that they miss the glory of parenthood, just as the grandeur of the trees is lost when raking leaves.

One sure way to lose another woman's friendship is to try to improve her flower arrangements.

Life begins when a person first realizes how soon it will end.

Eating without conversation is only stoking.

When a man does a household job, he goes through three periods: contemplating how it will be done; contemplating when it will be done; and contemplating.

Housekeeping is like being caught in a revolving door.

Our children await Christmas presents like politicians getting in election returns: there's the Uncle Fred precinct and the Aunt Ruth district still to come in.

A sparkling house is a fine thing if the children aren't robbed of their luster in keeping it that way.

A vacation frequently means that the family goes away for a rest, accompanied by a mother who sees that the others get it.