The pleasure of criticism takes away from us the pleasure of being deeply moved by very fine things.

Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its brevity.

You have captured me utterly, and you hold my heart in your hands. Be gentle with it. It's more fragile than you might think.

you came in slowly like the fogand consumed me.

In this avaricious world, even a beggar needs money in his bowl, to be heard.

I want to lay my kill at your feet.

When you are speaking to someone else you are really speaking only to yourself.

Many people remember that spirit that President Kennedy summoned forth. Many people look to me as somebody who embodies that sense of possibility.

Watch for the people whose eyes light up when you talk about your dream. Those are the people you keep.

People would do better, if they knew better.

God can be found only in suffering and the cross.

We aren't natural statisticians. What we are is natural storytelling machines. And so what we do after we have the facts in hand is build a story to explain the facts.