I'm not interested in who suffered the most. I'm interested in people getting over it.

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.

Creativity is infused with an inner cohesion and comes from a vision of uniqueness.

About all some men accomplish in life is to send a son to Harvard.

I will have to earn trust and respect from my kids.

In the end, the only thing between us was silence.

You can't become a billionaire stepping over children sleeping on the street.

Women are hard on themselves. I’m trying to stop focusing on my flaws and appreciate what I love about my body.

To be an ally is a formal military alliance. And we have a formal military alliance in NATO. But we are partners with other countries all across the world. And they're - they will be a partner.

Seldom, if ever, does wisdom come, shall we punish it if it comes late?

A long time ago, I stopped trying to look at projects as genre exercises.

the most important thing one can do for children is not accept the limitations they are so willing to impose on themselves.