Living things have been doing just that for a long, long time. Through every kind of disaster and setback and catastrophe. We are survivors.

I fear the boredom that comes with not learning and not taking chances.

To ponder is not to brood or grieve or even meditate. It is to wonder at a deep level.

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.

Peace is not something you wish for, � it is something you make, something you are, something you do,�and something you give away.

One of life's best coping mechanisms is to know the difference between an inconvenience and a problem.

I talk about very serious human affairs but with a lightness of heart.