Children are not our property, and they are not ours to control any more that we were our parents' property or theirs to control.

The river delights to lift us free, if only we dare let go.

I had experiences along the way that helped me to realize that letting go was the way that worked for me to find something that I, personally, as a reader, love to read.

Sense of family is enormously important to me. In the larger sense, we're all of us family; we're all of us soulmates.

If perfection is stagnation, then Heaven is a swamp.

Two thousand years ago, five thousand, they didn't have a word for imagination, and faith was the best they could come up with for a pretty solemn bunch of followers.

How can we resent the life we've created for ourselves? Who's to blame, who's to credit, but us? Who can change it, any time we wish, but us?