I love the solitude of reading. I love the deep dive into someone else's story, the delicious ache of a last page.

Before you know kindness as the deepest thing inside, you must know sorrow as the other deepest thing.

Poetry calls us to pause. There is so much we overlook, while the abundance around us continues to shimmer, on its own.

There is a place to stand where you can see so many lights you forget you are one of them.

... the real heroes of race and culture would always be the people who stepped out of their own line to make a larger circle.

You know, those of us who leave our homes in the morning and expect to find them there when we go back - it's hard for us to understand what the experience of a refugee might be like.

This is the world I want to live in. The shared world.

Being good felt like a heavy coat, so I took it off.

Before you know what kindness really is you must lose things, feel the future dissolve in a moment like salt in a weakened broth.

Energy is everything. Rubbing happy and sad together creates energy.

I am looking for the human who admits his flaws Who shocks the adversary By being kinder not stronger What would that be like? We don't even know

Until further notice, celebrate everything.

Stories are made about girls like you. The wild ones, those rare faces that smile in the midst of chaos.

It would be difficult to conceive a finer example of true sport.

Those you love leave behind their shadows to walk, always, with you in the form of memories.

Early American speeches, from Washington's to Patrick Henry's, have been detheologized in history textbooks. No one has called it censorship.

Let others lead small lives, but not you

I can only hold on to the things I want to lose.

It's not a question of whether the transition from old to the new goals, practices and metrics is going to happen. It's already under way.

Savor the throne, but don't mind the stool.

Blue is therefore most suitable as the color of interior life.