To see the world, things dangerous to come to, to see behind walls, draw closer, to find each other, and to feel. That is the purpose of life.

When Tana was six, vampires were Muppets, endlessly counting, or cartoon villains in black cloaks with red polyester lining.

Global health issues remind us - perhaps more than any other issue - that we are all children of the same extended family.

Style is just an impression. Style itself is hollow. Style, its ok style as long as it is part of a language. Style for style itself is just something very hollow.

To love is not to look at one another: it is to look, together, in the same direction.

Today might not be so good. But tomorrow, you got another chance to get it right.

What do you imagine the American people would think of me if I wasted my time going to the ball game?

You can't change anyone else but people do change in relationship to your change. All relationships are a system, and when any one part of a system changes, it affects the other part.

If you don't have the ability to see when to stand up and the conviction to do it, you'll never be an effective leader.

Sole reigning holds the tyranny of Heav'n.

I believe in myself as I look forward to graduating from Hamilton Heights High School in 1991.