Excellence costs a great deal.

I cannot understand why poetry is not taught at schools as a way of seeing, a quick, untiring path to essentials.

Don't forget that compared to a grownup person every baby is a genius. Think of the capacity to learn! The freshness, the temperament, the will of a baby a few months old!

Public education was not founded to give society what it wants. Quite the opposite.

A holiday gives one a chance to look backward and forward; to reset oneself by an inner compass.

We have to believe that every person counts, counts as a creative force that can move mountains.

I feel happy to be keeping a journal again. I've missed it, missed naming things as they appear, missed the half hour when I push all duties aside and savor the experience of being alive in this beautiful place.