The past empowers the present, and the sweeping footsteps leading to this present mark the pathways to the future.

The past empowers the present, and the sweeping footsteps leading to this present mark the pathways to the future.

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.

Fear is not a good teacher. The lessons of fear are quickly forgotten.

Of any stopping place in life, it is good to ask whether it will be a good place from which to go on as well as a good place to remain.

I had repeatedly accepted inappropriate burdens, stepping in to do what needed to be done. In retrospect, I think I carried them well, but the cost was that I was chronically overloaded, weary, and short of time for politicking, smoothing ruffled feathers, and simply resting.

In many ways, constancy is an illusion.