By trying to make things easier for their children, parents can make things much harder for them.

The voice of reason is inaudible to irrational people.

To have meaning, our lives require both passion and purpose. A life without passion is like a furnace without fuel, and without purpose, like a ship without a rudder.

Never let the worst of you get the best of you.

Sometimes I wonder which is worse - confrontational people who are afraid of caring or caring people who are afraid of confrontation.

It is one of history's greatest ironies that, over the centuries, the pursuit of pleasure has resulted in more pain than enjoyment.

Adolescence is a kind of slavery cleverly disguised as freedom.

When all things are considered, happiness is a better indicator of success than success has ever been of happiness.

Even though it runs counter to popular belief, Life's critical decisions are usually made in the heart and only later ratified by the brain.

The secret of a successful relationship is avoiding the unforgivable and forgiving the unavoidable.

Throughout history, most of the wrongs of the world have resulted from people absolutely sure they were in the right.

Make sure that your kids or the kids in your life have an opportunity to share their ideas, and to teach you something about what we know.

There are really no serious arguments for communion in the hand. But there are the most gravely serious kinds of arguments against it.

At times your unconsciousness is truer than your conscious mind

The deft white-stockinged dance in thick-soled shoes! Denmark's sanctuaried Jews!

Men walk almost always in the paths trodden by others, proceeding in their actions by imitation.

Why should we not have a first-hand and immediate experience of God?

I believed in happily ever after as much as anyone, because Jane Austen, Prince Charming, and Hugh Grant promised me it could happen. But maybe that particular delusion was universal.

In LA, you think you're making something up, but it's making you up.

It is not poverty so much as pretense that harasses a ruined man.