You cannot take credit for your talents. It is what you do with them that counts.

I suspect that in every good marriage there are times when love seems to be over.

She seems to have had the ability to stand firmly on the rock of her past while living completely and unregretfully in the present.

We can surely no longer pretend that our children are growing up into a peaceful, secure, and civilized world. We've come to the point where it's irresponsible to try to protect them from the irrational world they will have to live in when they grow up. The children themselves haven't yet isolated themselves by selfishness and indifference; they do not fall easily into the error of despair; they are considerably braver than most grownups. Our responsibility to them is not to pretend that if we don't look, evil will go away, but to give them weapons against it.

Life is not easy and comfortable, with nothing ever going wrong as long as you buy the right product. It's not true that if you have the right insurance everything is going to be fine. That's not what it's really like. Terrible things happen. And those are the things we learn from.

When we lose our myths we lose our place in the universe.

If you're too happy about anything, fate usually gives you a good sock in the jaw and knocks you down.