But life is not like that. You are not an airline. You can't remove a single olive from every salad served in first class and save one point two million dollars.

Childhood friends are continuity, uninterrupted connections between selves, and you hold on them. You hold on them and you love them, but sometimes they're not quite comfortable.

My mom used to call us 'free range kids, ' like free range chickens... We roamed the countryside.

Myth is an attempt to narrate a whole human experience, of which the purpose is too deep, going too deep in the blood and soul, for mental explanation or description.

I've never had a surprise birthday party. I've had every other type of surprise. I've had surprise beatings, surprise drug tests, surprise daughter I think.

Food can heal and renew. Food can be your anti-aging medicine.

To be content with life or to live merrily, rather all that is required is that we bestow on all things only a fleeting, superficial glance; the more thoughtful we become the more earnest we grow.

Ive been making my living with this material for over 15 years.

Raising children is a journey generously sprinkled with what many view as teachable moments, perhaps none as challenging as those surrounding faith and religion.

You're not lonely when you're teaching, you're not quiet, you're laughing most of the time, you're having a wonderful time interacting with young people. It's the best fun in the world.

Rare is the virtue that's not ruled by Fortune, That stands unshaken even when Fortune flees.

The distance between the adolescent and the true adult is about five thousand miles, but the distance between the adult and the elder is almost as large.