Real living is living for others.

Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one

The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering.

It is easy to make stuff up - and easy to dig up information and repeat it or report it to others. But to find a real life story with real people in real life situations is quite difficult and time-consuming. Yet, the rewards are worth the effort.

The cost of living is so high in Northern Virginia.

She had become really quite expert, she thought, at listening as though she didn't listen, at sitting in other people's lives just for a minute while they talked round her.