Something about the joy and pain of that moment, something about the excruciating contrast, made me feel that no matter what happens now, my life has been worth it. What a ride.

To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don't grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float.

It's not the beauty of a person you should admire. It is the purity of heart that deserves your admiration.

Loneliness is not a result of physical isolation

Whenever he was in company he wanted to get away, and whenever he was alone he wanted company.

Hot cocoa and cold toes remind me of Christmas.

To be able to dispense with good things is tantamount to possessing them.

Destiny: A tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure.

The history of scientific and technical discovery teaches us that the human race is poor in independent and creative imagination.

Multi-tasking is merely the opportunity to screw up more than one thing at a time.

We need to ensure that our foreign policy towards Cuba incentivizes and makes it easier for there to be a democratic transition. That is how I would examine our foreign policy towards Cuba.