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.

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

Human beings do not eat nutrients, they eat food.

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.

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.

Improvisation can be either a last resort or an established way of evoking creativity.

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