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

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

What would it be like to have not only color vision but culture vision, the ability to see the multiple worlds of others.

Monotony and repetition are characteristic of many parts of life, but these do not become sources of conscious discomfort until novelty and entertainment are built up as positive experiences.

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

In many ways, constancy is an illusion. After all, our ancestors were immigrants, many of them moving on every few years; today we are migrants in time. Unless teachers can hold up a model of lifelong learning and adaptation, graduates are likely to find themselves trapped into obsolescence as the world changes around them. 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.

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.