All parenting turns on a crucial question: to what extent parents should accept their children for who they are, and to what extent they should help them become their best selves.

I don't understand what the nature of God is. But I do have the feeling that I'm at some feet, and lucky to be there.

I love to communicate, and I love music. That's why I always thought not being able to hear would be a tragedy.

If your love didn't always contain the possibility of loss, it would be very different from human love as we know it.

Depression means that you have no point of view.

There is no question that abuse, drugs and exposure to violence at home can exacerbate someone's criminal tendencies enormously. But there are many, many criminals who don't come from that background.

I feel, as a matter nearly of faith, that if you have known a certain amount of suffering and have emerged out of it into the light, you are obliged to share that light with as many of the still-beleaguered as possible.