Caring can be learned by all human beings, can be worked into the design of every life, meeting an individual need as well as a pervasive need in society.

We are not what we know but what we are willing to learn.

The past empowers the present, and the sweeping footsteps leading to this present mark the pathways to the future.

The human species thinks in metaphors and learns through stories.

What would it be like to have not only color vision but culture vision, the ability to see the multiple worlds of others.

There are few things as toxic as a bad metaphor. You can't think without metaphors.

As you get up in the morning, as you make decisions, as you spend money, make friends, make commitments, you are creating a piece of art called your life.

When parents die, all of the partings of the past are reevoked with the realization that this time they will not return.

The timing of death, like the ending of a story, gives a changed meaning to what preceded it.

Worlds can be found by a child and an adult bending down and looking together under the grass stems or at the skittering crabs in a tidal pool.

Every loss recapitulates earlier losses, but every affirmation of identity echoes earlier moments of clarity.

Fight for your dreams with all your strength, soul and spirit.

Trusting fate, especial to resolve anything is a pure gamble.

There is no such thing as luck. There is only adequate or inadequate preparation to cope with a statistical universe.

It appears to be a law that you cannot have a deep sympathy with both man and nature.

I am a musician. My passion for music has obliterated everything in its path for my entire life.

Power is a neutral energy source, like tofu. It's what you do with it that gives it flavor.

In love deceit almost always outstrips distrust.

I still like the relationship part of any story. You don't want your character to figure everything out and then at the end of the day, go home and eat soup from a can by herself.

Take me ham away, take away my eggs, even my Chili, but leave me my newspaper.

When you concentrate on agriculture and industry and are frugal in expenditures, Heaven cannot impoverish your state.