There was an end to weeping. Mourning, however, ebbed and surged but never ceased flowing.

How can I love you if I don't know what hurts you?

Often, the human animal dresses terror in rage, and expresses both in a way unlike either.

... the object of learning was not to build a better mousetrap but to ask a better question.

Silence was not the absence of sound but was itself a sound that could be loud or soft, soothing or disturbing, complex or simple.

The young accept the extraordinary as normal because they do not compare their lives with those of others when everyone is like them.

He took the box but did not avail himself of a tissue. She understood. Sometimes it was comforting to feel the wetness of grief's tears on your face.

The most radical political act there is is to be an optimist. The most radical political act there is is to believe that, if I change, other people will follow suit.

What you have to do in certain situations, that's called situational hitting.

I just can't read music.

I come to YOU without ME, come to ME without YOU.

Emotions aren't doable. Actions are doable, and if you do them correctly, they prompt the feelings.

If I kept saying it; if I kept reaching out. My accident really taught me just one thing: the only way to go on is to go on. To say 'I can do this' even when you know you can't.

Social Security is the very foundation of retirement security for millions of Americans.

I've changed my mind, even against Omar al-Bashir. Whether he has to be charged or not, the Sudanese shall decide or the Africans.

Physical roles give me a chance to learn something new.