Losing is the price we pay for living. It is also the source of much of our growth and gain.

Superstition is foolish, childish, primitive and irrational - but how much does it cost you to knock on wood?

We can glut ourselves with how-to-raise children information . . . strive to become more mature and aware but none of this will spare us from the . . . inevitability that some of the time we are going to fail our children. Because there is a big gap between knowing and doing. Because mature, aware people are imperfect too. Or because some current event in our life may so absorb or depress us that when our children need us we cannot come through.

we love as soon as we learn to distinguish a separate 'you' and 'me.' Love is our attempt to assuage the terror and isolation of that separateness.

Passionate investment leaves us vulnerable to loss. And sometimes, no matter how clever we are, we must lose.

Somewhere slightly before or after the close of our second decade, we reach a momentous milestone--childhood's end. We have left asafe place and can't go home again. We have moved into a world where life isn't fair, where life is rarely what it should be.

For some it takes a lifetime to find true love, But for the lucky ones a lifetime is merely enough to share the love they've found.