Poverty ennobles no one; it brutalizes common people and makes them hungry and old.

The world was more than a place. Life was more than an event. It was all one thing, and that thing was: story.

Words are the only bread we can really share.

Laughter is a virus that infects you with humanity.

If you were born to be a nail, you had to be hammered.

Everybody knew that being dead could put you in a terrible mood.

Death is alive, they whispered. Death lives inside life, as bones dance within the body. Yesterday is within today. Yesterday never dies.

Is it a crime to want to be good? she cried

Our power comes from the earth

I am in the earth and the earth is in me

They breathed. They felt their lungs fill the sky, and they let the dark clouds inside them flow out. Then they connected to the earth.

There is more to life than just living.

The moment you think that your destiny is predetermined, you become a miserable loser! Trust your own power so that you can shape your own destiny!

Life is very simple, but to make ourselves feel intelligent, we insist on making it complex.

We are most alive when we're in love.

His regime has had high-level contacts with al Qaeda going back a decade and has provided training to al Qaeda terrorists.

I boxed through college and I played college level football. I was a linebacker.

Violence is what people do when they run out of good ideas.

Wayne came over to the bench one day after seeing (Zdeno) Chara, and said 'That's why I'm quitting.'

The last thing I'd learn, well into my career, was how to get on, how to say hello, how to get in with the audience.

I will not be influenced, governed, or controlled, in my temporal interests by any ecclesiastical authority or pretended revelation whatever, contrary to my own judgment.