Value is not made of money, but a tender balance of expectation and longing.

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

You never knew which split second might be the zigzag bolt dividing all that went before from the everything that comes next.

Mr. Shepherd, ye cannot stop a bad thought from coming into your head. But ye need not pull up a chair and bide it sit down." - Mrs. Brown

What keeps you going isn't some fine destination but just the road you're on, and the fact that you know how to drive.

Good fiction creates empathy. A novel takes you somewhere and asks you to look through the eyes of another person, to live another life.

Human manners are wildly inconsistent; plenty of people have said so. But this one takes the cake: the manner in which we're allowed to steal from future generations, while commanding them not to do that to us, and rolling our eyes at anyone who is tediously PC enough to point that out. The conspicious consumption of limited resources has yet to be accepted widely as a spirtual error, or even bad manners.