The most assiduous task of parenting is to divine the difference between boundaries and bondage.

Lies are infinite in number, and the truth so small and singular.

Wherever I am, let me never forget to distinguish want from need

In a world as wrong as this one, all we can do is make things as right as we can.

Memory runs along deep, fixed channels in the brain, like electricity along its conduits; only a cataclysm can make the electrons rear up in shock and slide over into another channel. The human mind seems doomed to believe, as simply as a rooster believes, that where we are now is the only possibility

Our childhood had passed over into history overnight. The transition was unnoticed by anyone but ourselves.

...nothing momentous comes in this world unless it comes on the shoulders of kindness.