Audiences forget facts, but they remember stories. Once you get past the jargon, the corporate world is an endless source of fascinating stories.

In a dazzling vote of confidence for form over substance, our culture fawns over the fleetingness of being “in love” while discounting the importance of loving. (206)

A child's learning is a function more of the characteristics of his classmates than those of the teacher.

Live like the Kennedy's, above the law.

There’s something about it that makes other good habits easier.

Fathers like to have children good-natured, well-behaved, and comfortable, but how to put them in that desirable condition is out of their philosophy.

Secrets can remind us of the countless human dramas, of frailty and heroism playing out silently in the lives of people all around us.

I've always had a theory that some of us are born with nerve endings longer than our bodies

I do think that one needs to have respect for people who are older. And I really do love the idea that one can respect generations.

Inside the Great Mystery that is, we don't really own anything. What is this competition we feel then, before we go, one at a time, through the same gate?

In politics one should not expect big jumps. Everything takes time.