Nationalism will keep its venom until we succeed in creating an image of the nations of the whole world as so many provinces.

Lord, if there is a heartache Vienna cannot cure I hope never to feel it. I came home cured of everything except Vienna.

The only way to live is to accept each minute as an unrepeatable miracle, which is exactly what it is: a miracle and unrepeatable.

Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.

Surprise will be my last emotion, not fear.

Sadistic literature is not only inhumane. It is anti-human.

For what I have received may the Lord make me truly thankful. And more truly for what I have not received.

Hope is a talent like any other.

Only one person in a thousand knows the trick of really living in the present.

You can't argue with a raging want. You can, but it is useless.

She did not so much cook as assassinate food.

I had no vote in the making of such a law, and I have no intention of abiding by it, either.

I am not one of the new media experts working all the time with my computers and the PowerPoints and things of that sort.

The biggest challenge is the chaos of parenthood, which has honestly been such a welcome challenge - bring it on, I say!

Javascript is the duct tape of the Internet.

You have to surround yourself with really good people and have a very thick skin.

I couldn't live without something that touches my heart. No one should.

I think of Gisele Bundchen to get myself on the treadmill

Social interactions can be enormously challenging for people on the spectrum. That's part of the reason that unemployment among autistic adults hovers near 80 percent.

One didn't issue instructions to comets. Grown children did what they had to do, and parents could only grit their teeth and watch and pray for them to get through it.

I was so happy I wanted to fold all the people into paper airplanes and fly them into the lidless eye of that big yellow moon.