I think our learning lies along the path of whatever it is we love.

There’s no disaster that can’t become a blessing, and no blessing that can’t become a disaster.

We [Americans] are game-playing, fun-loving creatures; we are the otters of the universe.

Live never to be ashamed if anything you say or do is published around the world, even if what is said is not true.

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

There's this wonderful and very important event when we're born, and we forget everything that's gone before, or else we'd be such a mass of rememberings that we couldn't operate successfully on this planet.

Rarely do members of the same family grow up under the same roof.