There's nothing like losing yourself in someone else's troubles to make you forget your own.

Some rules are nothing but old habits that people are afraid to change.

If only people could travel as easily as words. Wouldn't that be something? If only we could be so easily revised.

A man deserves credit when he accomplishes something of importance. Something that provides for the betterment of his life and his family's life and, whenever possible, mankind.

If the river has a soul, it's a peaceful one. If it has a lesson to impart, that lesson is patience. There will be drought, it says there will be floods the ice will form, the ice will melt the water will flow and blend into the river's brackish mouth, then join the ocean between Lewes and Cape May, endlessly, forever, amen.

There was no way to know that certainty would one day become a luxury, too.