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 …

- Sue Halpern

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

- Sue Halpern

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…

- Sue Halpern

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…

- Sue Halpern

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…

- Sue Halpern

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

- Sue Halpern

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…

- Sue Halpern