Congress is functioning the way the Founding Fathers intended-not very well. They understood that if you move too quickly, our democracy will be less responsible to the majority.

Women do two thirds of the world's work. Yet they earn only one tenth of the world's income and own less than one percent of the world's property. They are among the poorest of the world's poor.

I don't think it's the function of Congress to function well. It should drag its heels on the way to decision.

Exhaustion and exasperation are frequently the handmaidens of legislative decision.

Good environmentalism is good economics

I’ve known people that the world has thrown everything at to discourage them...to break their spirit. And yet something about them retains a dignity. They face life and don’t ask quarters.

Pain is a treasure, for it contains mercies.

Whatever the item is that I have chosen to give you, it is nothing more than the receptacle within which I have placed the whole of myself. If it is empty, it is not a gift.

Don't search about happiness in a miserable way.

Romania are more Portuguese than German.

you feel a little bit lost right now about what to do with your life, a bit rudderless and oarless and aimless but that's okay that's alright because we're all meant to be like that at twenty-four.

Everything human is alien to me.

There's no beginning to the farmer's year, / Only recurrent patterns on a scroll / Unwinding...

No people can be truly happy... if abridged of the freedom of their consciences