That's what it means to be an American. To be free to love who and what you want, and to keep a lot in your heart at once.

It seems like there are so many homesick people in the world. It seems like so many of us live far away from where we were born.

I come from Des Moines. Somebody had to.

As the future ripens in the past, so the past rots in the future --a terrible festival of dead leaves.

Music, when soft voices die, vibrates in the memory.

Living exists when life lives through us … life is a living now!

Learning how to live in the greatest peace, partnership, and brotherhood with all men and women, of whatever description, is a moving and fascinating adventure.

The undeniably feeble-minded should, indeed, not only be discouraged but prevented from propagating their kind.

The world in which the kestrel moves, the world that it sees, is, and always will be, entirely beyond us. That there are such worlds all around us is an essential feature of our world.

Latin America and the Caribbean are the happiest on average in the world.

When I was 12 I cried to my mom, because I never got my letter to Hogwarts.

I have friends who go [Tokyo] frequently on business, and it sounds interesting. I've heard that they have for the first time serious drug problems.