What do you think it is that drives people to want far more than they could ever use or need? I frankly think it's insecurity. How do we let the world know that the trappings of this life are not the things that are ultimately important for being accepted?

All life events are formative. All contribute to what we become, year by year, as we go on growing. As my friend the poet Kenneth Koch once said, You aren't just the age you are. You are all the ages you ever have been!

Our children are extensions of ourselves in ways our parents are not, nor our brothers and sisters, nor our spouses.

A love of learning has a lot to do with learning that we are loved.

Anyone who does anything to help a child in his life is a hero to me.

Love and trust, in the space between what’s said and what’s heard in our life, can make all the difference in the world.

Transitions are almost always signs of growth, but they can bring feelings of loss. To get somewhere new, we may have to leave somewhere else behind.