The measure of a country’s prosperity should not be how many poor people drive cars, but how many affluent people use public transportation.

When you totally commit yourself to a project and do your work quietly and well, unknown friends will find you and angels will surround you.

Most stories are not about peoplebut about life, an addiction like the rest of themthat destroys you even as you love it, but you love it anyway and can never get enough.

We fit the pieces of our life together in a pattern, but there is no image on the puzzlebox to guide us.

Sometimes we know people who aretoo wonderful for words. I am not one of them.Or you, for that matter, as you well know.

Anyone who pretends to "understand" Latin America is a fool.

We give more economic aid to multinational corporations to increase their profits than we do to all the countries in the world combined.

a good friendship euchres the universe.

All the wrong questions have been asked and the correct answers are not true.

The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thin

I have a temperament that doesn't adapt well to politics. It's because I speak my mind so much.

Duty, though set about by thorns, may still be made a staff supporting even while it tortures. Cast it away, and, like the prophet's wand, it changes to a snake.

The temptation to vivify the tale and make it walk abroad on its own legs is hard to deny.

It wasn't raining when Noah built the ark, but $120 for an earthquake emergency kit just seems unreasonable.

My upbringing is why I am the person I am today. I have very wise parents.

I don't reveal to her that I love her. I keep poker faced. She might as well be looking at a cantaloupe, there is so little information in my face, but my heart is beating.

All learning is in the learner, not the teacher.

Dance music was on its arse before we came along.