when he smiles it's as if you'd just told him the first joke on earth.

Knowing something and understanding it were not the same thing.

We all have two things in common, no matter who we are: We were born and we are going to die.

Parents rarely let go of their children, so children let go of them. They move on. They move away.

One day can bend your life.

We’re so wrapped up with egotistical things, career, family, having enough money, meeting the mortgage, getting a new car, fixing the radiator when it breaks—we’re involved in trillions of little acts just to keep going. So we don’t get into the habit of standing back and looking at our lives and saying, Is this all? Is this all I want? Is something missing?

I still think there is a way to take all the mistakes that we've made as adults and put a little bit of a salve on them, a little bit of a fix on them, if we just are a little smarter in what we teach our kids.