We do have to use our minds as far as they will take us, yet acknowledging that they cannot take us all the way.

A self is not something static, tied up in a pretty parcel and handed to the child, finished and complete. A self is always becoming.

Love of music, of sunsets and sea; a liking for the same kind of people; political opinions that are not radically divergent; a similar stance as we look at the stars and think of the marvelous strangeness of the universe - these are what build a marriage. And it is never to be taken for granted.

Because we fail to listen to each other's stories, we are becoming a fragmented human race.

Are anybody's parents typical?

I am not some kind of computer. Only machines have glib answers for everything.

Love isn't how you feel. It's what you do.