The mother is the most essential piece on the board, the one you must protect. Only she has the range. Only she can move in multiple directions. Once she's gone, it's a whole different game.

And it occurs to me that maybe the reason my mother was so exhausted all the time wasn’t because she was doing so much but because she was feeling so much.

At first parenthood was as I had expected, exhausting, sometimes heinous, and occasionally divine. I held my children close enough to feel them breathe, laugh, swallow.

Pulling at the hem of my emotion was the creeping sense that it might well take until 2036 for this child in my arms to feel a fraction of what I already felt for her.

It's easy to love kids who make you feel competent.

Pel-i-cans, their beaks hold more than their bellies can.

I learned to dream through reading, learned to create dreams through writing, and learned to develop dreamers through teaching. I shall always be a dreamer.

Iggy. This is not a democracy, " I said, (...)"It'sa Maxocracy.

Religious discrimination is not like racial discrimination. One you choose for yourself, the other God chose for you.

The more you look down on others, the less ANYBODY will look up to you.

In an autocracy, one person has his way; in an aristocracy, a few people have their way; in a democracy, no one has his way.

Mathematics seems to endow one with something like a new sense.

No one wants to see a hero have to pick up his cane to hit someone, but I'm still quite fit enough to fake it.

Good-looking people attract other good-looking people, and we want to market to cool, good-looking people.

First, I thought we'd already established that I am not a gentleman. That ship sailed long ago. And second, you'd be surprised what gentlemen do...and what ladies enjoy." ~Lord Bourne

Just be prepared for a long and often uncertain journey. The good stuff doesn't come easy.