Know how to treat frostbite until you can get indoors.

Be able to confide your innermost secrets to your mother and your innermost fears to your father.

When our spelling is perfect, it's invisible. But when it's flawed, it prompts strong negative associations.

[Adulthood:] It's when you stop doing the stuff you have to make excuses for and when you stop making excuses for the stuff you have to do.

The length of your education is less important than its breadth, and the length of your life is less important than its depth.

Scientists and creationists are always at odds, of course.

It is a lot easier to prove that you don't love someone than it is to prove that you do, but one of the best 'proofs' I know is the desire to devote time to the person with no expectation of any sort of compensation, including gratitude, in return.