Children don't need learning. They need access to what they want to learn outside the home.

Most beginning writers - and I was the same - are like chefs trying to cook great dishes that they've never tasted themselves. How can you make a great - or even an adequate - bouillabaisse if you've never had any? If you don't really understand why people read mysteries - or romances or literary novels or thrillers or whatever - then there's no way in the world you're going to write one that anyone wants to publish. This is the meaning of the well-known expression "Write what you know."

From infancy onward, children are the most fantastic learners in the world.

Many of the biggest and most far-reaching investments we make in our lives are investments that have little or nothing to do with money.

It's the idea that people living close to nature tend to be noble. It's seeing all those sunsets that does it. You can't watch a sunset and then go off and set fire to your neighbor's tepee. Living close to nature is wonderful for your mental health.

We're straying from the path of salvation because we remember that we once belonged to the world and were content in that belonging.

But why? Why do you need prophets to tell you how you ought to live? Why do you need anyone to tell you how you ought to live