Teaching is not telling and learning is not having been told.

Any growth requires a temporary loss of security.

You touch the world even if you do not want it to touch you. -Leona Montgomery

I did indeed say you could have lovers. But I never promised that I would not kill them.

Só a quero porque não a posso ter.Como um rapaz imberbe

Diane St. John had once said he looked as if he would speak in poetry, should he ever deign to speak at all.

Create something. Create something ugly. Create something beautiful.  I don't care what it is. Create it.

Every life has a sound. A voice to be heard. A song to be sung. A note to be played.

A life I didn't choose chose me.

Hold on hold fast hold out. Patience is genius.

Everyone I know who used to be in the intelligence community is moving into the corporate world.

Hate doesn't end hate. Love ends hate.

Solar power seems to be truly bipartisan in its appeal.

It doesn't seem that long ago to me that the word 'irreverent' seemed affixed to my name. 'Irreverent newcomer.' I went from irreverent to venerable in what seems to me like the blink of an eye.

What you are going to be tomorrow, you are becoming today.

I never let myself get psyched out. My motto is, ‘Stay calm and carry on.’