Danger hides in beauty and beauty in danger.

How helpless we are, like netted birds, when we are caught by desire!

All is pattern, all life, but we can't always see the pattern when we're part of it.

... wore sorrow and anger like a worn-out coat and would not throw it away.

Oh, lovely Europe, your flowers and your wine, your bread, your music.

I stand and listen to people speaking french in the stores and in the street. It's such a pert, crisp language, elegant as ruffling taffeta.

It was unwise to plan too carefully. It took only one great failure to learn that lesson.

. . . you worked for Harry King, they said, because a broken leg was bad for business, and Harry King was all about business.

A wise man is a student though he is a teacher.

I am a man of peace God knows how I love peace but I hope I shall never be such a coward as to mistake oppression for peace.

Coming together should be considered something positive for people and communities. When thoughts come together, that can be more positive than an individual thought.

Solidarity is the basis of my politics.

Learn to love the data and, for heaven's sake, write well.

It's a drought in your brain.

But huge photographs of dead bodies are slightly different. I couldn't find much humor there.

I think of the past and the future as well as the present to determine where I am, and I move on while thinking of these things.

Government has a habit of blaming the private sector for its own failings while taking credit for advances we in fact owe to the private sector.