Time...give us enough time and our best-supported decisions will seem wobbly, our certainties whimsical.

History is that certainty produced at the point where the imperfections of memory meet the inadequacies of documentation.

Some of the freckles I once loved are now closer to liver spots. But it’s still the eyes we look at, isn’t it? That’s where we found the other person, and find them still.

Later on in life, you expect a bit of rest, don't you? You think you deserve it. I did, anyway. But then you begin to understand that the reward of merit is not life's business.

What you end up remembering isn't always the same as what you have witnessed.

And yet it takes only the smallest pleasure or pain to teach us time’s malleability.

May you be ordinary, as the poet once wished the new-born baby.

Life seemed even more of a guessing game than usual.

I thought of the things that had happened to me over the years, and of how little I had made happen.

Is there anything more plausible than a second hand?

you find yourself repeating, ‘They grow up so quickly, don’t they?’ when all you really mean is: time goes faster for me nowadays.

Stars do not hide from darkness. Roses do not hide from thorns. Diamonds do not hide from pressure.

Stop giving yourself permission to fail

We learn the inner secret of happiness when we learn to direct our inner drives our interest and our attention to something besides ourselves.

All of nature is resurrection.

Books are only the shadow and life the real thing. I believe this as strongly as any belief I hold.

Equity capital is expensive. Every time you do a raise, you dilute.

The art of living is to enjoy what we can see and not complain about what remains in the dark.

My husband is so cheap. On Christmas Eve, he fires one shot and tells the kids Santa committed suicide.

There's no such thing as an animal too big too kill, AND we're cornered by such animals every day.

Real difficulties can be overcome; it is only the imaginary ones that are unconquerable.