To a predator, fear indicates weakness.

All human lives are so profoundly and intricately entwined-those dead, those living, those generations yet to come-that the fate of all is the fate of each, and the hope of humanity rests in every heart and in every pair of hands.

Creating a family in this turbulent world is an act of faith, a wager that against all odds there will be a future, that love can last, that the heart can triumph against all adversities and even against the grinding wheel of time.

If I drive myself to the brink of my ability, then I don't get stale or bored.

Some lives, conducted with grace, are beautiful arcs bridging this world to eternity.

Humanity is a parade of fools, and I am at the front of it, twirling a baton.

Where there's cake, there's hope. And there's always cake.