The American people rightly look to their military leaders to be not only skilled in the technical aspects of the profession of arms, but to be men of integrity

No matter how brilliant a man may be, he will never engender confidence in his subordinates and associates if he lacks simple honesty and moral courage.

Light is more important than the lantern, The poem more important than the notebook

There's something mystical in the air and in my heart.The weather is showing my emotions.

true humility is when you can surprise yourself more than others

My generation must have despair. - Leonard Bernstein Ch 40/Dog Water Free, A Memoir

I have a dog and sometimes I'll be the littlest kid with my dog and marvel at his ears and his nose and how he looks at me. If he died, I'd bawl like a baby.

We can sometimes waste years of our lives waiting to be chosen. But that is a false premise. You are already chosen!

Letters remind us that when we write we can bring back the best of times, even make time stand still, if only for a few minutes.

If we could only find the courage to leave our destiny to chance, to accept the fundamental mystery of our lives, then we might be closer to the sort of happiness that comes with innocence.

I sometimes cry in the moments that are not necessarily dramatic or tragic in the films, often because of the music. I wonder whether it's the music that has that effect on you in this film.

For me, writing is not a search for explanations but a ramble in quest of what informs a place, a hunt for equivalents.