At the end of life, at the end of YOUR life, what essence emerges? What have you filled the world with? In remembering you, what words will others choose?

From the earliest age on, even as we toy with it, we instinctively know there is something mighty about the truth, that it is an immobile, looming star. We grow to crave it.

No one ever went to their deathbed saying, 'You know, I wish I'd eaten more rice cakes.

Peace means no one is worried about anyone else's cookie...in this moment we are all quietly content with the cookies we have.

cozy+smell of pancakes-alarm clock=weekend

It often feels like I'm not so much living for the present as I am busy making memories for the future.

It would be difficult to convince me that leaning has no effect whatsoever on the outcome of my bowling.

I have not survived against all odds. I have not lived to tell. I have not witnessed the extraordinary. This is my story.

I am a slow reader, and fast eater; I wish it were the other way around.

I wish I had eaten more rice cakes.

If you want to grow up to be a big, strong pea, you have to eat your candy," Papa Pea would say.

So go back to the books. They will comfort you and cheer you. If you earnestly work with them, neither sorrow nor anxiety nor distress nor suffering need trouble your mind any more, no, not evermore.

Great leaders do not fear challenges, because challenges don't break leaders but sharpens them.

Negro Slavery is an evil of Colossal magnitude and I am utterly averse to the admission of Slavery into the Missouri Territories.

Belief is what you do when there is no data.

The next best thing to gambling and winning is gambling and losing.

The internet is something created largely by public funding.

Whatever is beautiful is beautiful by necessity

The French woman says, 'I am a woman and a Parisienne, and nothing foreign to me appears altogether human.'

Now, more than ever, the international community must act.

I like stories that affect families.