Wisdom was not at the top of the graduate-school mountain, but there at the sandpile at Sunday School.

All I ever needed to know I learned in kindergarten. Don't hit people. Clean up your own mess.

Making a living and making a life that's worthwhile are not the same thing. Living the good life and living a good life are not the same thing.

Peace is not something you wish for; it's something you make, something you are, and something you give away!

The examined life is no picnic.

If we could just figure out how to have more fun at it, maybe more of us would join the ranks of those who seek after justice and mercy.

We are the only creatures that both laugh and weep. I think it's because we are the only creatures that see the difference between the way things are and the way they might be.

Weddings seem to be magnets for mishap and for whatever craziness lurks in family closets. In more ways than one, weddings bring out the ding-dong on everybody involved.

I and you-we are infinite, rich, large, contradictory, living, breathing miracles-free human beings, children of God and the everlasting universe. That's what we do.

If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house burns down, then you got a problem. Everything else is inconvenience.