It was as if they wanted to take their older bodies and put their younger hearts inside.

The world does not turn without moments of grace. Who cares how small.

The luxury of age was the giving up of vanity.

We seldom know what echo our actions will find, but our stories will most certainly outlast us.

An optimist is a braver cynic.

The true nature of a democracy is its ability to say yes when even the powerful say no

His body, his mind, his soul, had, for years, served only for the profit of others. He had his own people to whom he was pledged. Three million. They were the currency of his freedom.

She expected no judgement and wanted no pity.

And there are moments that I would like to know what might have happened if it hadn't happened, and why it happened the way it did, and what it might have taken to prevent it from happening.

A friendship between a man and a woman was what you called it when one had been pursuing the other for a long time and never gotten anywhere.

Growing up, I had one very specific idea of what a wedding should be, and that was the wedding of Fraulein Maria and Captain von Trapp in 'The Sound of Music.'

Anyway that other thing we almost did in Paris-that's probably off the table for a while.Unless you want that whole baby-I'm-on-fire-when-we kiss thing to become freakishly literal

Gratitude to the Great Sky who holds billions of stars - and goes yet beyond that - beyond all powers, and thoughts and yet is within us - Grandfather Space. The Mind is his Wife

We empower ourselves every time we accept responsibility for choosing the thoughts and feelings we act on.

If you've seen my books through the years, I've always been a storyteller.

My all-time heroes are Thurgood Marshall and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., two men who had to really work to achieve what they did. And I had the privilege of meeting them both.

Bring peace to the Earth by bringing peace to all those whose lives you touch. Be peace.

My dad took me to my first movie.

A great leap in the dark