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

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

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

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.

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

Your character and attitude is what takes the lead in your leadership role and you follow them as a true leader". Poor character and attitude is eventually poor leadership.

a friend is someone who, when you make a mistake reminds you that you will, forever after, be a kinder person because of it...

maybe he's falling in love with the idea of falling in love with me. Maybe he wants to be in love with someone and I've ended up in the right place at the right time.

We know the only way to reimagine our government is to reimagine who is leading it.

The history of each and every territory is written in the blood of those who died trying to fulfill the aspirations of their ambitious leaders.

If there were no God, he would have to be invented.

A historian may be an artist too, and a novelist is a historian, the preserver, the keeper, the expounder, of human experience.

The purpose of models is not to fit the data but to sharpen the question.

The rocket worked perfectly, except for landing on the wrong planet.