The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
The most important thing she'd learned over the years was that there was no way to be a perfect mother and a million ways to be a good one.
We cannot deny the facts of nature, but we should certainly try to improve on them.
Writing gives you the illusion of control, and then you realize it's just an illusion, that people are going to bring their own stuff into it.
Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.
Even the fear of death is nothing compared to the fear of not having lived authentically and fully.
Most advances in science come when a person for one reason or another is forced to change fields.