We all suffer under a curse, the curse that we know more than we can endure, and there is nothing, absolutely nothing we can do about the force and the lure of this knowledge.

No one can steal your happiness unless you give them the key to your heart’s safe.

Ooo la la! That kiss was fine, and it was full of all the words I didn't need to say.

Travel at least erodes some of the narrowness that exists in each of us.

Climate change does not respect border; it does not respect who you are - rich and poor, small and big. Therefore, this is what we call global challenges, which require global solidarity.

I don't write in Portuguese. I write myself.

Only one who has achieved immortality of awareness can laugh with life and laugh with death.

Whatever is, and is not ashamed to be, is good.

I seem to be one of the few people in journalism who never worked or wrote for the 'Boston Phoenix.' I certainly read and admired it, and feel the same general malaise at news that it is gone.

The Mormon mission to Africa, as to other dark-skinned parts of the world, was for a long time hobbled by the racism of the movement's scripture.

God gave you not a spirit of faithlessness, not a spirit of despair.