"One thing they never tell you about child raising is that for the rest of your life, at the drop of a hat, you are expected to know your child's name and how old he or she is."

"I never leaf through a copy of National Geographic without realizing how lucky we are to live in a society where it is traditional to wear clothes."

"On vacations: We hit the sunny beaches where we occupy ourselves keeping the sun off our skin, the saltwater off our bodies, and the sand out of our belongings."

"Sometimes I can't figure designers out. It's as if they flunked human anatomy."

"Wisdom principle 16 tells us that the journey of life is lesson 86."

"It is a unyielding truth that to live with purpose is to leave the world a little gentler than you found it."

"Wisdom principle 96 tells us that the journey of life is lesson 94."

"There is a small world of people who are very interested in contemporary art and a slightly bigger world of people who look at contemporary art. But then there is a much larger world that doesn't realise how influential art is on things that they actually look at."