"Life is a collection of moments you might have appreciated more if you had only known they were moments."
"Life is a series of stages, each preparation for the one before."
"Life is a series of things you do for the first time and the last time, the difference being that you know when it's the first time."
What skeptic has not, in the dark of despair
Or the shadow of anguish and grief,
Sent out from his heart a questing prayer
To the God of his disbelief?
"The most certain measure of a dumbed-down population is that nobody is asking dumb questions."
"If I were awarding an all-time prize for human ingenuity, it would go to the person who, unable to command anyone's respect or gratitude or love, invented the concept of loyalty."
Ever wonder what an atheist says the ten or twenty times each day when everyone else says, "Thank God!"
"The central fallacy in parenting is that it's a teaching experience when, in fact, it's a learning experience. We are asked as parents to absorb each lesson quickly enough to convert it, real-time, into advice and counsel."
"One key to succeeding is to get it out of your head that there's always going to be clear evidence that you are."
"Who is the person of greater faith -- the person of certainty or the person who every day overcomes doubt?"
"One thing you notice about the happiest people is that they always seem to have the littlest reason."
"There is this curious feeling you have as a parent that nothing you do makes any difference and yet has lifelong consequences."
"All you can do as a parent is to make the recommended mistakes at the recommended age and trust to God."
"What's missing from most How-To books on parenting is how to be on the receiving end of it."
