Timing is everything. That´s right. Which is why our sages tell us to repent exactly one day before we die." But how do you know it´s the day before you die? I asked. He raised his eyebrows. "Exactly

Things change when you're not in danger anymore.

People are only mean when they're threatened, and that's what our culture does. That's what our economy does.

What in life can love not penetrate?

Knowing something and understanding it were not the same thing.

A memoir should have some uplifting quality, inspiring or illuminating, and that's what separates a life story that can influence other people.

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.