If you can't experience the humanity of people who don't look like you, you're not civilized enough to be an officer of the peace.

I'm a writer to the bone. I love this language you and I read, write and speak. It's called English. And I'm seriously doubting that it's known to some of the unseen people who write the news.

A protect-yourself-first-and-foremost idea has subverted the mission of law-enforcement officers, just as it may have degraded the military's.

I felt so happy I could barely stay in my skin

He who whets his steel, whets his courage

The fundamental laws are in the long run merely statements that every event is itself and not some different event.

The doorway to success cannot be opened with a key, but rather a combination

Swan, by Mary Oliver. Poems and prose. Reading from this book is as if visiting a very wise friend. There is wisdom and welcoming kindness on every page.

All media are extensions of some human faculty- psychic or physical.

There is a story behind every person, a reason why they are the way they are. Don't be quick to judge. Be kind and assume the best.

Displaying yourself as sexy doesn't do anything to increase sexual self-knowledge or pleasure.