A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single happy delusion that it can be done without a stop-over.

It is possible at any age to discover a lifelong desire you never knew you had.

You do not wake up one morning a bad person. It happens by a thousand tiny surrenders of self-respect to self-interest.

It is seeing ourselves in others that often prompts the remark, 'There's something about that person I don't trust.

I was once a skeptic but was converted by the two missionaries on either side of my nose.

I’ve concluded, after many years, that my mind works by process of elimination. Problem is, it hasn’t eliminated anything yet.

In a dark moment I ask, "How can anyone bring a child into this world?" And the answer rings clear, "Because there is no other world, and because the child has no other way into it."