I have lived with magic and without magic, and I can tell you with certainty that a life with magic is better.

A single, ordinary person still can make a difference - and single, ordinary people are doing precisely that every day.

He recalls what that first German soldier said to his major: No God-not yours or mine-approves of what you're doing.

My wife and I would be very comfortable having a baby at home, or using one of the terrific nurse-midwives at the hospital.

He defined himself almost wholly in the negative: It was not who he was, it was who he was not.

My mother used to talk about passages and, once in a while, about ordeals. We all have them; we are all shaped by them. She thought the key was to find the healing in the hurt.

And though some days it is very hard, I try not to live for the future. And I try not to dream of the past.