For a long time, I was trapped in this struggle with my emotions about the single person in the world who was my family.

Saadi: Be a true renouncer, (zahid) and [you can even] ware satin.

Nothing is easier to achieve than full employment, once it is divorced from the goal of full production and taken as an end in itself

When we sat down on the couch again, you curled up against my side, like you used to when you were a tod

Words spoken today that are not needed now must be kept till they will be needed

That's when the magic happens- when everyone else is asleep and you're awake thinking about the world as it is, and the world as it could be. Make the most of those moments.

The world is incomprehensible. We won't ever understand it; we won't ever unravel its secrets. Thus we must treat the world as it is: a sheer mystery.

I have a kind of neutrality, physically, which has helped me. I have a face that can be made to look a lot better - or a lot worse.

I have a feeling that once you live through something like this, you become a little bit invincible.

I happen to find motherhood a very natural state, but I know a lot of other people don't.

The whole concept of providence is that God knows everything about what we do.