Almost anything can be dealt with if people are of good will and light hearts and strong values.

I love this child. Red-haired - patient and gentle like her mother - fey and funny like her father. When she giggles I can hear him when he and I were young. I am part of this child. It may be only because we share genes and that therefore smell familiar to each other.... It may be that a part of me lives in her in some important way.... But for now, it's jelly beans and 'Old MacDonald' that unite us.

A giraffe has a black tongue twenty-seven inches long and no vocal cords. A giraffe has nothing to say. He just goes on giraffing.

Children are sent to school to be civilized, to learn to be part of the social enterprise.

All I really need to know... I learned in kindergarten.

Remember, most of us got something for nothing the first time just by showing up here at birth. Now we have to qualify.

Share everything. Don't take things that aren't yours. Put things back where you found them.