For many of us, the curtain had just come down on childhood.

I think we hear a lot of talk about college, and we don't hear about early education.

I took my orders, too. But if i couldn't keep you alive, I thought I could at least keep you together. In the middle of a big war, you go looking for a small idea to believe in. When you find one, you hold it the way a soldier holds his crucifix when he's praying in a foxhole.

Every life has one true love snapshot.

We do not realize the sound the world makes -- unless, of course, it comes to a stop. Then, when it starts, it sounds like an orchestra.

When you are measuring life, you are not living it.

It’s not contagious, you know. Death is as natural as life. It’s part of the deal we made.