I feel sad for him. Sad for the boy bound to the killer. I am sad for the youth betrayed by their leaders for symbols and flags and war and power.

We're all born with the greatest treasures we'll ever have in life. One of those treasures is your mind, another is your heart.

Israeli occupation exposes us very young to the extremes of our emotions, until we cannot feel except in the extreme.

the reverse side of love is unbearable loss.

I know she is crying. Her tears fall on the wrong side, into the bottomless well inside her.

Under the broken promises of superpowers and under the worlds indifference to spilled Arab blood.

Always" is a good word to believe in.

Death, in its certainty, is exacting its due respect and repose before it takes my hand.

Would words shatter the immensity of life and death so close to one another?

I loved her in spite of myself. I loved her immeasurably.Infinitely. And I feared that love as much as I feared my own fury at theworld.

How fate is stubborn and holds to habit.

No matter how busy you may think you are, you must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance.

Always the cat remains a little beyond the limits we try to set for him in our blind folly.

If I don't believe in Jesus, maybe I don't believe in Hell. Did you ever think of that? You're so excited about it, why don't you go to Hell? It's your concept; you invented it.

Don't tell people you are broke. Guilting fans into buying your music never works.

The hoary joke in the literary world, based on 'Dreams From My Father,' was that if things had worked out differently for Barack Obama, he could have made it as a writer.

I went from being totally unknown to getting stopped every time I went out. I always wanted to be successful, but I have never wanted to become a celebrity. I never, ever, craved that.

The voice that breathed o'er Eden, That earliest wedding day.

Sisterhood is powerful.

I want them to be fully committed to the work place and fully committed to the people they work for. (on Manchester City players)

When life gives you lemons, order the lobster tail.