Before you know kindness as the deepest thing inside, you must know sorrow as the other deepest thing.

I love the solitude of reading. I love the deep dive into someone else's story, the delicious ache of a last page.

Poetry calls us to pause. There is so much we overlook, while the abundance around us continues to shimmer, on its own.

There is a place to stand where you can see so many lights you forget you are one of them.

... the real heroes of race and culture would always be the people who stepped out of their own line to make a larger circle.

You know, those of us who leave our homes in the morning and expect to find them there when we go back - it's hard for us to understand what the experience of a refugee might be like.

This is the world I want to live in. The shared world.

Being good felt like a heavy coat, so I took it off.

Before you know what kindness really is you must lose things, feel the future dissolve in a moment like salt in a weakened broth.

Energy is everything. Rubbing happy and sad together creates energy.

I am looking for the human who admits his flaws Who shocks the adversary By being kinder not stronger What would that be like? We don't even know

The ending of your story all depends on the beginning of ours.

Life of any real value or substance is not formed during good times merely enjoyed.

Love is like a pair of polarized sunglasses, making every color seem more vivid, richer, warmer. Without it we stare at the world dull-eyed and flinch at the thought it might remain the same forever.

I suggest to wash tongues and heads with soap for some people. But I'm not sure that it would help

Dear God, please help me to be the kind of person who my dogs think I am.

Sometimes we don't notice that someone is being brave, because they are only doing something that seems quite easy for us.

Humanity is a community, I don't care if your black, your white, your Christian, your Jewish, your Muslim. We are all one community and heroes really make us see what's possible at any given time.

There is at least this to be said for mind, that it can dispel mind.

Real joy comes not from ease or riches or from the praise of men but from doing something worthwhile.

You will never find happiness until you stop looking for it.