When parents die, all of the partings of the past are reevoked with the realization that this time they will not return.

There are few things as toxic as a bad metaphor. You can't think without metaphors.

Most higher education is devoted to affirming the traditions and origins of an existing elite and transmitting them to new members.

Worlds can be found by a child and an adult bending down and looking together under the grass stems or at the skittering crabs in a tidal pool.

Human beings do not eat nutrients, they eat food.

Caring can be learned by all human beings, can be worked into the design of every life, meeting an individual need as well as a pervasive need in society.

Often continuity is visible only in retrospect.