Justice must not only be seen to be done but has to be seen to be believed.

Get up from that piano. You hurtin' its feelings.

I had intended to have gone into Africa incognito. But the fact that a white man, even an American, was about to enter Africa was soon known all over Zanzibar.

The Europeans and Americans residing in the town of Zanzibar are either Government officials, independent merchants, or agents for a few great mercantile houses in Europe and America.

My contributions were many: First clown director, with witty sayings and flashily dressed, now called master of ceremonies.

One disadvantage of being a hog is that at any moment some blundering fool may try to make a silk purse out of your wife's ear.

What shocks me is that so many people leave care and become homeless, and when you're homeless you get into crime, prostitution and drugs, and it is a vicious circle. That's what we need to change.

I'll never get a part in a huge action blockbuster.

You make a life out of what you have, not what you're missing.

Arbor Day is not like other holidays. Each of those reposes on the past, while Arbor Day proposes for the future.

Moral outrage is the most powerful motivating force in politics.

Only when we start to distinguish reality from fantasy that we can humbly, with eyes wide open, forge loving and sustainable connections with others.

The era of procrastination, of half-measures, of soothing and baffling expedients, of delays is coming to its close. In its place we are entering a period of consequences.

Echoes can’t read minds. But when you get to know someone very well, you can read their expressions. Pay attention. It will happen to you too.

It was my dream to come to Oxford and study political science.

If I'm not working and getting my makeup done, that's my chance to do a hair mask and a face mask and my plucking and waxing and all of that.

The one thing that matters is the effort.

People often overestimate what will happen in the next two years and underestimate what will happen in ten.

Kyle gazed down at her. “I lied when I said I followed you to the bar because you’re hot.” He touched her cheek. “I saw you laughing with your friends, and your smile sucked me right in.

I don't go to see bands any more because I've got tinnitus, so I have to avoid loud music. You get used to it, but when it's quiet you hear a constant ringing.

The Ploughmen is part inspired fever-dream, part adventure story, a lyric parable of not just goodand evil but of the vast and beautiful and often lonely country in-between. Kim Zupan is a wonder.