There is nothing like a man for bringing out the animal in an animal.

Children love to be alone because alone is where they know themselves, and where they dream.

The problem with death is absence

The God worth worshipping is the one who pays us the compliment of self - regulation, and we might return it by minding our own business.

A library should be like a pair of open arms.

Slum kids die slowly, their lives eroded at so languid a pace that even they would have trouble tracing the disintegration. To the children of war death explodes like a car bomb.

If you need three adjectives to describe something, then you've probably chosen the wrong something.

The only reason I wanted 'Making Toast' as the title is that it is a simple gesture of moving on. Every morning there's the bread and you make the toast and you start the day.

Friends are lights in winter; the older the friend, the brighter the light.

The belief in potential human virtue underlies the whole idea of the Bill of Rights; the document is a very tough guardian of that belief.

Only by moving in the direction you least trust can you be saved

Acts of Kindness:A random act of kindness, no matter how small, can make a tremendous impact on someone else's life.

It is difficult to think outside the box because the thinking IS the box.

I don't know anything anymore. Is that normal? Is it normal to notice the enormity of everything and just go blank?

Kids are dying from diarrhea ... that just shouldn't be in this day and age, and it's that kind of thing that needs to be changed. Enough is enough

If the horse you're drawing looks more like a dog, make it a dog.

...and down they forgot as up they grew.

95% of millennials say their friends are the most credible source of product information.

Nancy Reagan fell down and broke her hair.

Courtship consists in a number of quiet attentions, not so pointed as to alarm, nor so vague as not to be understood.

He who has made a fair compact with poverty is rich.