Equality and self-determination should never be divided in the name of religious or ideological fervor.

There are times in life when, instead of complaining, you do something about your complaints.

I see a resurgence of interest in poetry. I am less optimistic about the prospects for the arts when it comes to federal funding.

All of us have moments in our childhood where we come alive for the first time. And we go back to those moments and think, This is when I became myself.

A good poem is like a bouillon cube. It's concentrated and it nourishes you when you need it.

Courage has nothing to do with our determination to be great. It has to do with what we decide in that moment when we are called upon to be more.

Being true to yourself really means being true to all the complexities of the human spirit.

We should always do something that makes us feel like a child again. Keep learning, no matter what it is.

The library is an arena of possibility, opening both a window into the soul and a door onto the world.

I've always been intrigued by the way history works, the way we decide what is mentioned.

Sometimes a word is found so right it trembles at the slightest explanation.

The quality of the product is inseparable from the quality of its parts.

I’m curious about why there’s so much honor given to death, when there is no honor in losing someone you love.

In morning Don't go out of bed with dirty thoughts. As new day begins first thing God do is "bless our thoughts.

I tried to make sense of things. Now that I think about it, I have always tried. It could be my epitaph. LEO GURSKY: HE TRIED TO MAKE SENSE.

The people who do make big discoveries are the ones who somehow manage to free themselves from conventional ways of thinking and to see the subject from a new perspective.

The National Socialist Party in Austria never tried to hide its inclination for a greater Germany.

What may appear as a towering peak to one may seem but an ordinary eminence to another.

Most people don't realize this, but you can eat organic, all natural, gluten-free food without telling everyone around you.

I look on that paper (the Constitution) as the most fatal plan that could possibly be conceived to enslave a free people.

If I have to remove one to save ten, I'll do it in a heartbeat. If I have to waterboard somebody to save a thousand people, I'll do it in a heartbeat.