She felt lately as though she had served her purpose, done her job, and been dispensed with, not only by her children, but by her husband as well.

Death preserves an ideal.

The crowning feature of the federal system is the supremacy of the judiciary over all other branches of government in matters relating to the rights of persons and property.

A small group of thoughtful people could change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.

Most people experience love, without noticing that there is anything remarkable about it.

I came alive when I started loving you.

I got one that can throw but can't catch, and one that can catch but can't throw, and one who can hit but can't do either.

[If] I'm talking about something, that doesn't mean I'm necessarily doing it.

The free world knows, out of the bitter wisdom of experience, that vigilance and sacrifice are the price of liberty.

"Everyone is asleep. They've all been asleep for years. You seemed... awake." Alex is whispering now. He closes his eyes, opens them again. "I'm tired of sleeping."

Climate is an angry beast and we are poking at it with sticks