Extenuating circumstance to be mentioned on Judgment Day: We never asked to be born in the first place.

The Summer had died peacefully in its sleep, and Autumn, as soft-spoken executrix, was locking life up safely until Spring came to claim it.

Ignore the awful times, and concentrate on the good ones.

I believe that reading and writing are the most nourishing forms of meditation anyone has so far found. By reading the writings of the most interesting minds in history, we meditate with our own minds and theirs as well. This to me is a miracle.

Extenuating circumstance to be mentioned on Judgment Day: We never asked to be born in the first place.

Our classes were relatively small. Those small classes can feel like family. After a class in French or chemistry or whatever, we'd be talking in the halls about what we just learned.

I couldn't survive my own pessimism if I didn't have some kind of sunny little dream.