The heart will turn to a prune if love is always by the numbers. How will you know if someone really loves you if they only meet your expectations and not your needs?

Maybe we should develop a Crayola bomb as our next secret weapon. A happiness weapon. A Beauty Bomb. And every time a crisis developed, we would launch one. And people would smile and get a little funny look on their faces and cover the world with imagination.

Infinite possibility in all things is a certainty. That pretty much covers theology and philosophy for me.

I wanted to be a citizen of the world but not in a superficial way.

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

Every person passing through this life will unknowingly leave something and take something away. Most of this “something” cannot be seen or heard or numbered or scientifically detected or counted. It’s what we leave in the minds of other people and what they leave in ours. Memory. The census doesn’t count it. Nothing counts without it.

Sometimes history knocks at the most ordinary door to see if anyone is home. Sometimes someone is.