The combination of domesticity and wildness - that's a deep expression

That's when I feel most alive, he told me once on an airplane, when I'm helping people.

...Attempts at imitation would put the emphasis where it didn't belong. The goal was to improve the lives of others, not oneself.

In order to go on with our lives, we are always capable of making the ominous into the merely strange.

Public education rests precariously on the skill and virtue of the people at the bottom of the institutional pyramid.

In a very basic way, a prominent landmark such as Mt. Holyoke tells you where you are. They let you know that you're not the first person in a place

God gives us humans everything we need to flourish, but he's not the one who's supposed to divvy up the loot. That charge was laid upon us