She was ... unhappy. It was part of her, you could not separate her from it. She was sad the way a horse is strong or a bird flies.

It is harder, usually, to find a person who wants to walk the streets of me, to taste the teas of my country, to... immigrate, you could say.

... relationships required such vigilance, such attention. You had to hold them together by force of will, and other people took up so much space, demanded so much time. It was exhausting.

He didn't even know how to talk about it. He had practiced not talking about the things he knew until no man could be called his equal.

Are you the only human in the world then? And all of the rest of us monsters?

The group of people that are insulting the society with ungodliness are those that are out rightly known with ungodliness and those that try to mimic godliness.

A common defect of modern art study is that too many students do not know why they draw.

I believe that Gandhi was correct. Non-violent civil disobedience is the only way to bring about change that allows people to enjoy the change and not get killed in the process.

Answers are not obtained by putting the wrong question and thereby begging the real one.

Not what the mind sees, but what the mind imagines the eye must see.

While death and darkness girdle me I grope for immortality.

We're finding [texting] 11 times more powerful than email [for communicating with kids].

I've never had to spend any time in the VA hospital, so I really can't speak for those guys.

If someone is expressing everything I am feeling at the moment, it's probably Jon Stewart. I hear him and think, Yeah!

When you are motivating people to do amazing things, you have to win over both their rational side and their emotive side.