Cruelty depends on an understanding of cruelty, and the ability to choose against it. Or to choose to ignore it.

If the thrill of hunting were in the hunt, or even in the marksmanship, a camera would do just as well.

You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.

Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living.

The sky slowly pulled up its blue dress to reveal night.

The more you love someone, he came to think, the harder it is to tell them. It surprised him that strangers didn't stop each other on the street to say I love you.

His voice was handsome and broken, like a cobblestone street.

To feel alone is to be alone.

Words are capable of making experience more vivid, and also of organizing it. They can scare us, and they can comfort us.

When we eat factory-farmed meat we live, literally, on tortured flesh. Increasingly, that tortured flesh is becoming our own.

It has shown me that everything is illuminated in the light of the past. It is always along the side of us...on the inside, looking out.

There's no point in fighting for a woman that is rude and boring, just because she's hot. Such woman shortens your lifespan.

There is nothing greater than enthusiasm.

The Obama administration kind of shows how you can use diplomacy to bring the most important countries together and get the whole world on board.

We meet no Stranger, but Ourself.

Live in the moment, where everything is just right, take your time and limit your bad memories and you'll get wherever it is you're going a lot faster and with less bumps in the way.

At least for tonight. In sickness and in health. In good times and in bad. For richer, for poorer. 'Till dawn do us part.

In the game of basketball, I play first off because I love it. I love to have fun. I love to run up and down the court.

You could probably prove, by judicious use of logarithms and congruent triangles, that real life is a lot more like soap opera than most people will admit.

People who take risk intelligently can usually actually make a lot more progress than people who don't.

My best friend is my husband.