I had to have a complete liver transplant.
I waited with a beeper for a year and 10 months to get that gift.
I was dying but suddenly had a second chance at living.
The bad news was that I was sick enough to be on the waiting list and you move up as you get sicker and sicker.
They had to match blood type and meet all sorts of things I don't know about.
This is the kind of situation that can tear people apart. It tears at the fabric of your soul and can certainly tear at your marriage and ours has gotten only stronger.
We need to appreciate how precious life is.
Every moment of resistance to temptation is a victory.
For right is right, since God is God and right the day must win. To doubt would be disloyalty, to falter would be sin.
Kind thoughts are rarer than either kind words or deeds. They imply a great deal of thinking about others. This in itself is rare. But they also imply a great deal of thinking about others without the thoughts being criticisms. This is rarer still.
Kindness has converted more sinners than zeal, eloquence, or learning.
The buried talent is the sunken rock on which most lives strike and founder.
They always win who side with God.
The publisher is a middleman, he calls the tune to which the whole rest of the trade dances; and he does so because he pays the piper.
I was a wonderful parent before I had children. I was an expert on why everyone else was having problems with theirs. Then I had three of my own.
Let us dig our furrow in the fields of the commonplace.
Let us turn elsewhere, to the wasps and bees, who unquestionably come first in the laying up of a heritage for their offspring.
The common people have no history: persecuted by the present, they cannot think of preserving the memory of the past.
We have within us, from the start, that which will distinguish us from the vulgar herd.
Without feeling abashed by my ignorance, I confess that I am absolutely unable to say. In the absence of an appearance of learning, my answer has at least one merit, that of perfect sincerity.
In 2000, Shelley underwent a successful liver transplant operation.
The actress Nanette Fabray is Shelley's aunt.
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