Humans are the only animal that blushes, laughs, has religion, wages war, and kisses with lips. So in a way, the more you kiss with lips, the more human you are. And the more you wage war.

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.

Be independent, and do what you will.

To err is human to forgive divine.

Twinkle twinkle little star! How I wonder what you are Up above the world so high Like a diamond in the sky!

I have met Vladimir Putin, and I know his ambition will not be detoured by a gimmicky red, reset button.

Death is like thunder in two particulars; we are alarmed, at the sound of it; and it is formidable only from that which preceded it.

The president should not be able to make me or you ever worried about what's going to happen in our personal life.

Are we asserting the easy dominion of our civilization over all times and all places, as signs that we casually absorb as a form of loot?

The most important stage of any enterprise is the beginning.

Hell is yourself and the only redemption is when a person puts himself aside to feel deeply for another person.

The forces that tend for evil are great and terrible, but the forces of truth and love and courage and honesty and generosity and sympathy are also stronger than ever before.