Right and wrong were shades of meaning, not sides of a coin.

Add there was that moment when my mother and father walked in the door disguised as old people. I thought the miles in the car had bent them, dulled their eyes, even grayed and whitened their hair and caused their hands and voices to tremble. At the same time, I found, as I rose form the chair, I'd gotten old along with them.

Columbus only discovered that he was in some new place. He didn't discover America.

You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart.

Numbers, time, inches, feet. All are just ploys for cutting nature down to size.

To love another another human in all of her splendor and imperfect perfection , it is a magnificent task...tremendous and foolish and human.

...whom he had saved from a life of excessive freedom