And it can take a lifetime, a life of many years, to accept the incongruity of things: that a small moment can sit side by side with a big one, and become part of the same.

The world was made up of people putting one foot in front of the other; and a life might appear ordinary simply because the person living it had been doing so for a long time.

You got up, and you did something. And if trying to find a way when you don't even know you can get there isn't a small miracle; then I don't know what is.

But maybe it's what the world needs. A little less sense, and a little more faith.

I've begun to think that we sit far more than we're supposed to...Why else would we have feet?

If we can't accept what we don't know, there really is no hope.

...People would make the decisions they wished to make and some of them would hurt both themselves and those who loved them, and some would pass unnoticed, while others would bring joy.

Harold could no longer pass a stranger without acknowledging the truth that everyone was the same, and also unique; and that this was the dilemma of being human.

The past was the past; there was no escaping your beginnings.

you could be ordinary and attempt something extraordinary, without being able to explain it in a logical way.

The least planned part of the journey, however, was the journey itself.

Is it me you're describing, or yourself?

Nothing is more fatal to health than an overcare of it.

I don't ever remember having any bad times here in Pittsburgh.

I trained as a classical guitarist but that was it.

The best teachers are the best storytellers.

Lord Chancellor, did I deliver the speech well? I am glad of that, for there was nothing in it.

Climate change is a reality.

Insurance and funding traditionally drive capital investment. But in a world based on access, not ownership, the duration, value, cost and extent of financial services is distinctly different.

Do not figure out big plans at first, but, begin slowly, feel your ground and proceed up and up.

Let me have war, say I; it exceeds peace as far as day does night; it's spritely, waking, audible, and full of vent.