Charm is the enchanted dart, light and subtle as a hummingbird. But it is deceptive in one thing: like a sense of humor, if you think you've got it, you probably haven't.

...appetite turns common food into the fare of kings.

I want the privilege of guiding the arrows of my children and giving them the exhortations that can shoot them into the high place.

It isn't fair that there's pressure exerted on those who choose to live on the edges of the bell-shaped curve of normal.

When lost, I look for gas stations for counsel.

The way of surviving is to find meaning in suffering.

Life and death in a relationship depend on attitudes.

Plans can be like a winged horse, but their execution plods along pulling carts.

I wonder if we climb to heaven over the ruins of many cherished schemes.

Marriage is the learning of someone else's habits.

(Home) is you in things.

Dare to dream and yearn to learn to cross the boundary of fears and doubts.

The reason is that Chile is the brightest spot in Latin America. It has very fast growth, low unemployment. It privatized its Social Security system, which we in USA were unable to do.

William Gladstone has not a single redeeming defect.

I want to surrender to the feelings and shapes of words and not stop until I am clearly heard by myself and my God.

Cowardice, the dread of what will happen.

New York City is a great apartment hotel in which everyone lives and no one is at home.

I think my father was somewhat disappointed in not having had a son, and in that way I was the nearest thing he had.

I'm not saying running could solve all of the world's problems, but I think it would be a good start.

I think that humanity is at an all-time low in how we value life, especially among young Black people. We just don't really value each other's lives .

Then outwardly you are the small universe! Then inwardly you are the great universe.