Before we sent kids to computer camps and told them they were having a good time, there was imagination among the human species.

Car designers are just going to have to come up with an automobile that outlasts the payments.

Adults are always telling young people, 'These are the best years of your life.' Are they? I don't know. Sometimes when adults say this to children I look into their faces. They look like someone on the top seat of the Ferris wheel who has had too much cotton candy and barbecue. They'd like to get off and be sick but everyone keeps telling them what a good time they're having.

It's [motherhood] the biggest on-the-job- training program in existence today.

Cleaning the house while the children are home is like shoveling while it's still snowing.

I remember thinking how often we look, but never see ... we listen, but never hear ... we exist, but never feel. We take our relationships for granted. A house is only a place. It has no life of its own. It needs human voices, activity and laughter to come alive.

Once you see the drivers in Indonesia you understand why religion plays such a part in their lives.