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

Then he read the words of the scroll slowly, first in Japanese and then carefully translated into English: 'There is really nothing you must be. And there is nothing you must do. There is really nothing you must have. And there is nothing you must know. There is really nothing you must become. However. It helps to understand that fire burns, and when it rains, the earth gets wet. . . .' 'Whatever, there are consequences. Nobody is exempt,' said the master.

Don't worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you.

So you drive as far as you can, even when you can clearly read the sign. You want to think you are exempt, that it doesn’t apply to you. But it does. Life is still a dead end. And we still have a hard time believing it

We even make ourselves up, fusing what we are with what we wish into what we must become. I'm not sure why it must be so, but it is.

The myth of the impossible dream is more powerful than all the facts of history.

You can't always explain everything you do to everybody, you know.