If the day comes when our descendants can venture with wonder into chestnut forests, we will have gained back more than a perfect tree. We will have gained a new reason for hope.

This is where the will to grapple with our hard and pressing environmental problems begins: in relationship to something other that you love beyond any utility, beyond any logic.

They are not demons, not devils...Worse than that.They are people.

Somewhere, far down, there was an itch in his heart, but he made it a point not to scratch it. He was afraid of what might come leaking out.

Make time daily for your well-being.

If folks don't like the way you look, they almost never take the time to find anything out about you. They just make up their own stories

Where we're not wrong or where the cost of settling is so much that it is totally disproportionate to the harm or the error that we made, we're not going to settle.

The unusual is only found in a very small percentage, except in literary creations, and that is exactly what makes literature.

Every single person is a beautiful human being, and we're lucky. That's what gives you longevity. You have to love the people that you work with.

There won't be a Palestinian state within Israel.

I don't do any corporate work.

I still have a dream.