Joy, not sorrow.Laughter, not tears.Life, not death.Love, not blame.

Come with me, ' Mom says.To the library. Books and summertimego together.

And then it hits me like a fast, open-palmed, stinging smack in the face.Having a ghost boyfriend WASweird

When you meet someoneso different from yourself, in a good way, you don’t even have to kissto have fireworks go off.

Okay.I will go.But only ifyou will give meyour guiltto takewith me.

People more often kill those they love than those they hate. Possibly because only the people you love can really make life unendurable to you.

There is a strong moralistic strain in the civil rights movement that would remind us that power corrupts, forgetting that the absence of power also corrupts.

The simultaneous reactions elicited all over the world by the reading of newspaper dispatches about the same events create, as it were, a common mental pulse beat for the whole of civilized mankind.

This moment is precious and full of great potential: all we have to do is figure out the little changes that will make a huge impact on how wonderful life can be in this moment.

All of our humanity is dependent upon recognizing the humanity in others

Some people still hold [the] view that restraints help psychiatric patients feel safe. I've never met a psychiatric patient who agreed.

Of everything I have done, 'The Archers' always gets the most excitement; there's a sort of uncontrollable joy from fans of the program.

If only we could see the value of one soul like God does.

Many dedicated endurance athletes don’t need to be told what to do – they need to be told what not to do.

So much of politics is about the daily grind of political business: the people to see, the myriad different facets of government, the remorseless agenda of this part of the media or that.