Never to get lost is not to live, not to know how to get lost brings you to destruction.

There is no one as dangerous as he or she who has nothing to lose.

Leave the door open for the unknown, the door into the dark. That’s where the most important things come from, where you yourself came from, and where you will go.

A book is a heart that only beats in the chest of another.

To be hopeful means to be uncertain about the future, to be tender toward possibilities, to be dedicated to change all the way down to the bottom of your heart.

Worry is a way to pretend that you have knowledge or control over what you don't--and it surprises me, even in myself, how much we prefer ugly scenarios to the pure unknown.

Joy doesn't betray but sustains activism. And when you face a politics that aspires to make you fearful, alienated and isolated, joy is a fine initial act of insurrection.

Politics is pervasive. Everything is political and the choice to be "apolitical" is usually just an endorsement of the status quo and the unexamined life.

Memory, even in the rest of us, is a shifting, fading, partial thing, a net that doesn't catch all the fish by any means and sometimes catches butterflies that don't exist.

Every minute of every hour of every day you are making the world, just as you are making yourself, and you might as well do it with generosity and kindness and style.

Revolution is as unpredictable as an earthquake and as beautiful as spring. Its coming is always a surprise, but its nature should not be.

It wasn't premeditated. It was what needed to be done. So I did it.

Every great tragedy forms a fertile soil in which a great recovery can take root and blossom...but only if you plant the seeds.

If you call yourself a leader, then you have to be decisive. If you're decisive, then you have the chance to be a leader. These are two sides to the same coin.

In my iPod, there are many operas, from A to Z. I have 'Aida' and 'Boheme' and 'Butterfly' and 'Cavalleria'. My passion is for opera, but when I'm in the car, I listen to everything.

My wife and I went back to the hotel where we spent our wedding night. Only this time, I stayed in the bathroom and cried.

The only thing worse for smoking than drinking is quitting drinking. Because then it's the only thing you can do.

There comes a time in every life we find the heart we're looking for.

There is nothing more tragic in all the world than to know right and not to do it.

Whether he wants it or not, man is the instrument of nature; she imposes on him character and appearance.

Christmas is telling you that you could never get to heaven on your own. God had to come to you.