Childhood and adulthood were not factors of age but states of mind.

You need contradictions to make an ideal.

With the Internet, we can choose the very communities we want to be a part of.

On a cement pediment stands the inevitable bronze statue of a man in a cheap suit.

A doctor must work eighteen hours a day and seven days a week. If you cannot console yourself to this, get out of the profession.

For maybe the first time he could remember, he was very seriously thinking about how to best kill someone he’d never even seen.

Young age can be experience just once, but immaturity never leaves even we grown up??

They are happy men whose natures sort with their vocations.

I think I've become more like my mom just because of what we're both interested in, children and teaching and writing.

There is a secret hippie within me.

Forgiveness is its own reward.

May the pain of every living creature be completely cleared away. May I be the doctor and the medicine and may I be the nurse for all sick beings in the world until everyone is healed.

The gospel announces that God doesn't relate to us based on our feats for Jesus, but Jesus' feats for us.

I doubt if a charging elephant, or a rhino, is as determined or hard to check as a socially ambitious mother.