A child playing with its father screams louder, laughs harder, jumps more eagerly, puts more faith in everything.

I will never forget the asymmetry of your eyes. it is transformative symmetry. it is the best symmetry. It is the symmetry that is beauty.

Maybe some people don't feel scared when they think about comets and supernovas. Maybe they think it is wonderful.

Sleep is a shallow death we practice every night.

As if it would slide off their brains at an angle, leaving a scuff mark.

Don't seek permission to be happy.

To be a runner is to learn continual life lessons.

In every out-thrust headland in every curving beach in every grain of sand there is the story of the earth.

The human mind evolved to believe in the gods. It did not evolve to believe in biology.

I was a single mother when my child was little.

One of the beautiful things about baseball is the history.

What the study of history and artistic creation have in common is a mode of forming images.

I never forgot the four years I spent with the Phillies, my September call-ups and my big league Spring Trainings. I never forgot that.

Sustainable development is not an option! It is the only path that allows all of humanity to share a decent life on this, one planet. Rio+20 gives our generation the opportunity to choose this path.

It comes down to a question of attention: it's difficult to use the Net distractedly, unlike the television or the radio.