The humor is the sort born of ironic necessity; they use it to salve the wounds in insensitity.

There is nowhere morning does not go.

The ability to know one’s limitations, to recognize the bounds of one’s own comprehension—this is a kind of knowing that approaches wisdom.

For why are we here if not to try to fathom one another? Not through facts alone, but with the full extent of our imaginations. And what are stories if not tools for imagining?

People cheat when they are afraid. When there is no cost to being wrong or confessing ignorance, there is no reason to cheat or fake comprehension.

Every sad thing, every loss or hurt really a challenge to love that much more, really just another of beauty's many strongholds.

Who could ever tell a story complete?

The ignorance we’re ignorant of is the ignorance most difficult to remedy.

We are often more treacherous through weakness than calculation

You are on your own now, you have always been & you shall forever be .

Why do you suppose I’m here?” I asked him. Angel. A thirteen-year-old departed gangbanger. “Just ’cause you’re supposed to be, I guess.

We are so fond of each other because our ailments are the same.

At no time in history have we succeeded in making, in a timely fashion, a specific vaccine for more than 260 million people.

Christ . . . said that a man who had looked after a woman lustfully had sinned as much as the man who had seduced her. How absurd!

We are sufficient to do everything possible to heal this Earth.

Only deeds give strength to life, only moderation gives it charm.

Marriage to me means unity, it means strength because I believe that both people can be stronger in their calling because of each other.

Tomorrow is the first day of the rest of our lives.