Most of us are now free to walk away from our marital commitments more easily than from any other contract in our lives.

Why would a married couple that lives together every day need to date each other? It's precisely because they live and sleep together.

A family, like a canoe, must be steered or paddled, or it won't take you where you want to go.

Refuse to worry. Cast your anxiety upon the Lord. He cares for you.

Secrecy is the freedom tyrants dream of.

Nothing is inherently and invincibly young except spirit. And spirit can enter a human being perhaps better in the quiet of old age and dwell there more undisturbed than in the turmoil of adventure.

I suspect that when the truth ceases to be heartbreakingly funny, we will be in a better place and a happier society over all.

Love is 2 minutes and 52 seconds of squelching noises.

Good in Crisis; Sucks at Normal.’ That about sums up my whole life, doesn’t it?

The assignment of purpose to everything is called teleology. Children are native teleologists, and many never grow out of it.

Optimism is an essential ingredient of innovation. How else can the individual welcome change over security, adventure over staying in safe places?

There are those who make music and movies in a linear way: They plan them, they have a script. Of course, you have to have a script sometimes, but that alone isn't enough.

Ballet's image of perfection is fashioned amid a milieu of wracked bodies, fevered imaginations, Balkan intrigue and sulfurous hatreds where anything is likely, and dancers know it.