We will no longer judge our candidates on their outward physical appearance. That's huge.

It's believed that roughly 97% of history has been lost over time.

In response to our fast-food culture, a 'slow food' movement appeared. Out of hurried parenthood, a move toward slow parenting could be growing. With vital government supports for state-of-the-art public child care and paid parental leave, maybe we would be ready to try slow love and marriage.

The experience of writing under a pseudonym was tremendously liberating; I could write what I wanted.

Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.

I place a high moral value on the way people behave. I find it repellent to have a lot, and to behave with anything other than courtesy in the old sense of the word-politeness of the heart, a gentleness of the spirit.