A dog can’t think that much about what he’s doing, he just does what feels right.

You can’t replace people you love with other people…But you can trust that you’re not going to run out of people to love.

What I want is so simple I almost can't say it: elementary kindness.

There was a roaring in my ears and I lost track of what they were saying. I believe it was the physical manifestation of unbearable grief.

God, why does a mortal man have children? It is senseless to love anything this much.

The very least you can do in your life is figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof.

The flowers were beaten down, their bent-over heads bejeweled with diamond droplets like earring on sad, rich widows

What I want is so simple I almost can’t say it: elementary kindness.

Words are like spices. Too many is worse than too few.

When you express your gratitude, you will bring joy to others lives.When others know joy, your life will be filled with happiness.

In our household, the Bible, the Koran and the Bhagavad Gita sat on the shelf alongside books of Greek and Norse and African mythology

The Conservatives over the years have done a great deal, from Sir John A, to Diefenbaker, and others.

It is fun to be outside; it's good to move your body and there is just a joy in sports and athletics.

Scatter good will and love and prayers all around, everywhere, and you will be astonished, not only by what it does for other people, but how it comes back to you in generous abundance.

I greatly enjoyed Tom Reiss's The Orientalist, for its mingled scholarship and sleuthing, and for so elegantly solving the puzzle of one of the Twentieth Century's most mysterious writers.

When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest...and there is nothing to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war

I have grown up loving Shakespeare.

I declare that The Beatles are mutants.