We do not need to understand other people and their customs fully to interact with them and learn in the process; it is making the effort to interact without knowing all the rules, improvising certain situations, which allows us to grow.

The human species thinks in metaphors and learns through stories.

A suprising number of physicians manage to continue to care about persons even after the rigors of medical training.

Human beings do not eat nutrients, they eat food.

Often continuity is visible only in retrospect.

Jazz exemplifies artistic activity that is at once individual and communal, performance that is both repetitive and innovative, each participant sometimes providing background support and sometimes flying free.

The family is changing not disappearing. We have to broaden our understanding of it, look for the new metaphors.