I think the rest of the world is not as cold and lonely a place as you think. At least I have to hope.

I think that's what you say when you can't have something you want, isn't it? You say you don't want it in the first place.

So many lights you’d think we were living in a constellation

Earth, " Alexa finally said. "It's not that great anyway." And they all smiled sadly. Because, of course, it was everything.

Tolstoy to Gandhi to Martin Luther King to Me and You

It was the kind of place where hard drinkers came to wrestle their demons while fallen angels drank alone in dark smoky corners.

Put your trust in God my boys and keep your powder dry!

In the sheltered simplicity of the first days after a baby is born, one sees again the magical closed circle, the miraculous sense of two people existing only for each other.

I obviously am cognizant of the fact that being handsome gives me greater breadth of opportunity. I'd hope that what I bring to the table far surpasses just being handsome.

Tis I whom children love the best; / My wealth is all for them; / For them is set each glossy cup / Upon each sturdy stem.

I just wanna throw my phone away and find out who is really there for me

We're more than friends and neighbors and allies; we are kin, who together have built the most productive relationship between any two countries in the world today.

We do not pass twice through the same door Or return to the door through which we did not pass.

Tolerance is thin gruel compared to the rapture of absolute truths. It's not surprising that religious people are often better protected by atheists and agnostics than each other.