Conspicuously absent from the Ten Commandments is any obligation of parent to child. We must suppose that God felt it unnecessary to command by law what He had ensured by love.

I tell my child, if I seem obsessed to always know where you've been, it is because my DNA will be found at the scene.

There are many experts on how things have been done up to now. If you think something could use a little improvement, you are the expert.

There is no daily chore so trivial that it cannot be made important by skipping it two days running.

I sit in my garden, gazing upon a beauty that cannot gaze upon itself. And I find sufficient purpose for my day.

I don't think most people want to be unhappy. It's just something they've gotten good at.

Nature decrees that we do not exceed the speed of light. All other impossibilities are optional.