I cannot live with someone who can't live without me.

A desert is a place without expectation.

The truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.

A truly living human being cannot remain neutral.

The caged eagle become a metaphor for all forms of isolation, the ultimate in imprisonment. A zoo is prison.

Peace. The upland serenity of high altitude, the openness of grassland without indigenous bush or trees; the greening, yellowing or silver-browning that prevailed, according to season.

Writing is making sense of life.

Perhaps the best definition of progress would be the continuing efforts of men and women to narrow the gap between the convenience of the powers that be and the unwritten charter.

I have failed at many things, but I have never been afraid.

Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you've made sense of one small area.

Time is change; we measure its passage by how much things alter.

Where friendship blooms, life is reborn.

Without gospel, how could know the great grace of salvation?

Fighting with your fate is equal to fight with God.

those who despair of life are not long for it.

I have good legs, and why to hide them?

They (american press) always blame America first!

He taught us the art of unqualified love. How to give it, how to accept it. Where there is that, most other pieces fall into place.

I don't think the American people want unilateral government control over the entire health-care system.

There are going to be questions about what major oil companies are doing with all of the resources they're accumulating. They can't escape that.

I'm happy to be where I am and how everything has turned out.