Your top job as a new parent is to love your baby like crazy. After showering her with affection, your next two important jobs are to feed her and to calm her when she cries.

There is a lot of advice on baby feeding, but almost nothing on how to help crying babies.

Sometimes it might be kinder to kill a man, than to take his dreams from him.

I'm perfect in being imperfect...

A person without her or his own truth ain't a person at all, Ida said. Anybody who tells you different—is a jackass, and no longer deserves to be called human being.

Seek not the good in external things;seek it in yourselves.

Nothing spoils idle pleasure like too much awareness

There is something fierce and starved about first ideas.

(The Tao) is always present and always available. . . . If you are willing to be lived by it, you will see it everywhere, even in the most ordinary things.

Whenever we wake up from a horrible nightmare, we don't immediately scream out of happiness.It takes a while to feel so safe and so good.

I'm going to do things when they are right for me.

Plain living and high thinking are no more.