This is the world I want to live in. The shared world.

I love the solitude of reading. I love the deep dive into someone else's story, the delicious ache of a last page.

Before you know kindness as the deepest thing inside, you must know sorrow as the other deepest thing.

Poetry calls us to pause. There is so much we overlook, while the abundance around us continues to shimmer, on its own.

There is a place to stand where you can see so many lights you forget you are one of them.

... the real heroes of race and culture would always be the people who stepped out of their own line to make a larger circle.

You know, those of us who leave our homes in the morning and expect to find them there when we go back - it's hard for us to understand what the experience of a refugee might be like.

Being good felt like a heavy coat, so I took it off.

Before you know what kindness really is you must lose things, feel the future dissolve in a moment like salt in a weakened broth.

Energy is everything. Rubbing happy and sad together creates energy.

I am looking for the human who admits his flaws Who shocks the adversary By being kinder not stronger What would that be like? We don't even know

Nature is a haunted house--but Art--is a house that tries to be haunted.

joy is not just about being happy. Joy is a rigorous spiritual practice of saying yes to life on life’s terms

Success in whatever format it prevails is founded on how deeply we master the inner workings of our minds.

I mean, don't forget the earth's about five thousand million years old, at least. Who can afford to live in the past?

I have discovered the missing link between the anthropoid apes and civilized men. It's us!

Everything is dead while it lives.

When I was growing up in the 50s it wasn't quite the same. Fathers were more protective and now they see all of the possibilities for their daughters.

Do we so appreciate the marvelous salvation of Jesus Christ that we are our utmost for His highest?

The coolest thing is that my sister and I, you know, we've done what a lot of people have not been able to do. Which is to have our own careers, together.