Sometimes having courage means the hardest tasks fall onto your shoulders, and those leave the biggest scars.

Trust no friend without faults, and love a woman, but no angel.

The only true religion is the grace to act right.

Above all, we pray that they will make the journey from selfishness to true love. Whether together or single, this is a journey we all have to make. In a sense it is the real journey of life.

The mark of a legitimate revolution - the scientific, for example - was that it didn't brag about its revolutionariness but simply occurred.

He could never be anything more than what he was: the inheritor of weakness and unbridled emotion, a creature possessed by the past, and carrying its curse forever into the future--

I think there are many ways to raise great kids. From what I can tell, Ayelet Waldman's kids are interesting, strong, and happy, and if that's the case, that's good parenting.

It cannot take decades to resurrect, we must act immediately with purpose and enthusiasm to rebuild.

I believe that in judging our actions we are more severe than professional judges. We judge not only our actions, but our thoughts, our intentions, our secret curses, our hidden hate.

Love: You're not meant to wait for it. You're not meant to search for it. You're meant to generate it.

Eternal Vigilance is the price of democracy.