And don't you let your guard down for a second because you think anything's inevitable.

If you hit bottom, there's a whole lot of people here to help you up

Remember that even in war there is a time for restraint. A time to hold back your sword.

Even in war there should be lines you didn't cross.

If you had hope, maybe you could find a way to make things change, . Because if you thought about it, there were so many reasons to try.

And he would put his arms around her and hold her, but he had no idea what to tell her. In his mind, Gregor knew how to kill things, not bring them back ti life.

He wanted to stay there forever, letting her soothe him, pretending he was just a kid and his mom could make everything okay.

The best thing to learn from any government is that it does not get affacted by what other people talk or think about it.

Some saints cannot do menial work while maintaining a saintly attitude because they feel such service is beneath their dignity.

Pain is only temporary, but victory lasts for ever.

Right now, hail to the Michigan State Spartans.

It's all one to me: opera, painting, drawing, faxes.

I think all families are creepy in a way.

To try to do something which is inherently impossible is always a corrupting enterprise.

A good many people voted for [Barack] Obama, and I'm not only talking about the black vote. A lot of people voted for Obama because of our history of racial discrimination in this country.

It is the job of poetry to clean up our word-clogged reality by creating silences around things.

Cultivating and conserving diversity is no luxury in our times: it is a survival imperative.