Hope is a strange commodity. It is an opiate. We swear we have relinquished it and, lo, here comes a day when, all unannounced, our enslavement to it returns.

And it is silence that she hears, the silence of lost years that have no voice left in them.

Acceptance, she thinks, is the harshest lesson life teaches and the one most important to learn.

A vegetable garden in the beginning looks so promising and then after all little by little it grows nothing but vegetables, nothing, nothing but vegetables.

We consider that the United Nations' ideal is a Jewish ideal.

About being grateful for what you have instead of yearning for what you think you want.

I think we need to maintain the good relationship between the people of Egypt and the people of the United States.

Tolerance is a good cornerstone on which to build human relationships.

Pretending the past doesn't exist is as bad as living in it.

Poetry's medium is not merely light as air, it is air: vital and deep as ordinary breath.

I think, ultimately, people are looking for real heartfelt true stories. They want to engage with them, they want to relate (to) them and, ultimately, they want to have hope.

Last night there seemed to be a chance. Anything was possible last night. That was the trouble with last nights. They were always followed by this mornings.

The one thing about the music business is that there is no rulebook. It's not like the NFL or something where there's four downs to get ten yards or baseball where it's three strikes and you're out.