To grow up without risk is to risk not growing up.

To be a different kind of parent, you don't just need a different parenting philosophy. You need a very different view of what a child actually is.

There are no grown-ups....Everyone is winging it, some just do it more confidently.

By your 40s, you don't want to be with the cool people; you want to be with your people.

The French aren't perfect, but they have some parenting secrets that really do work.

When you're wondering whether she's his daughter or his girlfriend, she's his girlfriend.

One day I have a revelation. ‘I think we’re actually quite compatible, ’ I tell him. ‘You’re irritable, and I’m irritating.

...a butterfly is like the soul of a person, it dries out in captivity.

. . .though the names of lovers are forgotten in time, their nameswritten across the sky as ogham threads are tracedbetween the stars

Death has no repeal. It is a brute ending that leaves us the legacy of an inscrutable silence. Therefore, I understand the voice of mercy very well.

Someone's going to be very pleased to see you.""I don't think the Elector will be as excited as you think.""I wasn't talking about the Elector."My heart jumps at that.

If I were an American as I am an Englishman while a foreign troop was landed in my country I never would lay down my arms - never! never! never!

Japanese architecture is traditionally based on wooden structures that need renovating on a regular basis.

Don't curse the darkness, light a candle.

But if you can plant yourself in stillness long enough, you will, in time, experience the truth that everything (both uncomfortable and lovely) does eventually pass.

I am amazed by how many individuals mess up every new day with yesterday. They insist on bringing into today the failures of yesterday and in so doing, they pollute a potentially wonderful day.

Yiddish is the voice of exile, the tongue of ghettos, but I'll shed a tear when it joins ancient Greek and dead Latin. For gossip and insult, you can't beat Yiddish.