Success produces success, just as money produces money.

As the most social apes, we inhabit a mirror-world in which every important relationship, whether with spouse, friend or child, shapes the brain, which in turn shapes our relationships.

Couples are jigsaw puzzles that hang together by touching in just enough points.

Wonder is a bulky emotion. When you let it fill your heart and mind, there isn't room for anxiety, distress or anything else.

Home is where the heart is, we say, rubbing the flint of one abstraction against another.

Writing is my form of celebration and prayer.

Don't just live the length of your life - live the width of it as well.