I'm writing mostly to thank you for living you eighty years and to tell you I love you and think of you often.

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.

There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn't true

I foresee the day when we shall read nothing but telegrams and prayers.

We set up harsh and unkind rules against ourselves. No one is born without faults. That man is best who has fewest.

The only unique contribution that we will ever make in this world will be born of our creativity.

I will jump on anybody's private plane at the drop of a hat. I'm an old-fashioned lower-middle-class boy.

Our goal should be to understand our differences.

Hobbes clearly proves, that every creature Lives in a state of war by nature.

I like to open new doors and blaze new trails through the jungle and all that whatnot. What keeps me goin all these years is changin it up.

You know the FA's the richest football association in the world? Well, I shouldn't say that. They're not the richest at all. What they do is they have the biggest turnover in the world with £325m.