Sometimes there’s no one to listen to what you really might like to say at a certain moment. The paper always listens.

I love the solitude of reading. I love the deep dive into someone else's story, the delicious ache of a last page.

Before you know kindness as the deepest thing inside, you must know sorrow as the other deepest thing.

Poetry calls us to pause. There is so much we overlook, while the abundance around us continues to shimmer, on its own.

There is a place to stand where you can see so many lights you forget you are one of them.

... the real heroes of race and culture would always be the people who stepped out of their own line to make a larger circle.

You know, those of us who leave our homes in the morning and expect to find them there when we go back - it's hard for us to understand what the experience of a refugee might be like.

This is the world I want to live in. The shared world.

Being good felt like a heavy coat, so I took it off.

Before you know what kindness really is you must lose things, feel the future dissolve in a moment like salt in a weakened broth.

Energy is everything. Rubbing happy and sad together creates energy.

The most radical and far-reaching solutions often need rethinking of processes and deep questioning of the status quo-and these are hard.

You don’t know what it’s like to be alone until you’ve had someone inside your head.

That is the exciting thing: I don't know what God has given me for tomorrow.

I'm a great believer in the Arsene Wenger school of management - which is, you don't worry about the opposition, you just get your own act together.

If you want it and expect it, it will be yours very soon.

God gave the sea the danger and the abyss, but it was in it that He mirrored the sky.

I can't be No. 1 with an MVP trophy. I could be No. 1 with the championship ring and the championship trophy on my fireplace.

Man is sent into the world to perform his duty even at the cost of his life.

The day is coming when a single carrot, freshly observed, will set off a revolution.

I'm no longer willing to let myself down.