Passion kept one fully in the present, so that time became a series of mutually exclusive 'nows.'.

A culture that values only what has succeeded before, where the first rule of success is that there must be something 'measured' and counted, is not ….

Trusting each other is the beginning of a certain secular faith, a faith that allows us to live in families and communities and nations. Democracy, a….

It is essential not only to the souls of painters and poets, who thrive in solitude, but to the rest of us, too--individuals whose canvas is our live….

We are made of memories and formed by experience. I keep wondering what kind of people we would be, and what kind of world this would be, if when bad….

Though we are made of memories, we live only in the here and now..

Trust, which is a virtue, is also a habit, like prayer. It requires exercise. And just as no one can run five miles a day and cede the cardiovascular….