Repent

“To see differently. Literally, to repent, which in the original Greek metanoia does not mean, ‘Say you’re sorry,’ as I always used to believe, but rather: Transform yourself. Turn around, change your mind, change your heart, change your way of seeing. And through...

Life Lessons

“I hate life lessons. Consider all the I-hope-you’ve-learned-your-lesson experiences: skinned knees, high school romances, wreckage of dad’s car, flunked college courses, horrible hangovers, failed marriages. I tell my children, ‘Avoid life lessons. The more important...

Good Health

“If I’d known I was going to live this long, I’d have taken better care of myself.” – Eubie Blake (on reaching 100)

Disposition

“It is not time or opportunity that is to determine intimacy; it is disposition alone. Seven years would be insufficient to make some people acquainted with each other, and seven days are more than enough for others.” – Jane Austen

Lifecycle

First we are children to our parents, then parents to our children, then parents to our parents, and finally children to our children.” – Milton Greenblatt