Are anybody's parents typical?

There is nothing we need be afraid to say before the Lord.

I can't think of one great human being in the arts, or in history generally, who conformed, who succeeded, as education experts tell us children must succeed, with his peer group.

Because to take away a man's freedom of choice, even his freedom to make the wrong choice, is to manipulate him as though he were a puppet and not a person.

When we believe in the impossible, it becomes possible, and we can do all kinds of extraordinary things.

To grow up is to accept vulnerability. To be alive is to be vulnerable.

Love can't be pinned down by a definition, and it certainly can't be proved, any more than anything else important in life can be proved.