It is the neglect of timely repair that makes rebuilding necessary.

The loss of a friend is like that of a limb time may heal the anguish of the wound but the loss cannot be repaired.

The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.

You don't repair that relationship by sitting down and talking about trust or making promises. Actually what rebuilds it is living it and doing things differently - and I think that is what is going to make the difference.

We had high and boisterous winds last night and this morning: the Indians continue to purchase repairs with grain of different kinds.

I get up at sunrise. I'm a Buddhist so I chant in the morning. My wife and I sit and have coffee together but then it's list-making time. I have carpentry projects. We have roads we keep in repair. It's not back-breaking but it's certainly aerobic and mildly strenuous.

It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.

Marriage is a wonderful invention: then again so is a bicycle repair kit.

We're learning how important it is both to preserve sibling relationships if they work and repair them if they're broken. We're also learning a lot about nonliteral siblings - stepsiblings half-siblings - and the surprising power they can have.

I think there's been a decline in the public's access to what's being done with their tax dollars what's being done in their name. I hope that that will be repaired.