The creative impulse can be killed, but it cannot be taught. What a teacher can do... in working with children, is to give the flame enough oxygen so that it can burn. As far as I'm concerned, this providing of oxygen is one of the noblest of all vocations.

Oh child, your language is so utterly simple and limited that it has the affect of extreme complication. -Aunt Beast

To be a witness means to live in such a way that one's life would not make sense if God did not exist.

Sometimes idiosyncrasies which used to be irritating become endearing, part of the complexity of a partner who has become woven deep into our own selves.

To grow up is to find the small part you are playing in the extraordinary drama written by somebody else.

We need the rock of the past under our feet in order to spring forward into the future.

life is the greatest gift that could ever be conceived ... A daffodil pushing up through the dark earth to the spring, knowing somehow deep in its roots that spring and light and sunshine will come, has more courage and more knowledge of the value of life than any human being I've met.