We are at war. War has a way of stripping us of perspective. War is about life and death, and it paints everything in shades of now or never.

With our hands, we reach for things we shouldn't have and we grasp what isn't ours. The way I have always reached for you.

The longer he remained on this earth, the more he was sure that mankind had no clue about God or heaven. Not when they used him as an excuse to kill, to punish, to discriminate.

No weight in her pockets and far too much heaviness in her heart.

Camillo always say we are on earth to learn. I think I want to teach. I want to teach history so that the world does not have to repeat our mistakes.

This may be a thing you neither want nor need, " she said. "But I'd rather you have it, wishing didn't, than not have it and wish you did.

Maman died today. Or yesterday maybe, I don't know. I got a telegram from the home: 'Mother deceased. Funeral tomorrow. Faithfully yours.' That doesn't mean anything. Maybe it was yesterday.

Whether you're eighteen or sixty, in a certain way, whatever you know is valid.

What inspires me still: travel, art, photography, my kids, the places I haven't been to yet.

Fattened in vice, so callous and so gross, he sins and sees not, senseless of his loss.

We're finally learning that it is not an either-or situation ... Feelings and learning and emotion are all very integral to each other.

You can manage what you do not understand; but you cannot lead it.

You never know until a song comes out and becomes what it becomes, obviously you can't predict how the masses will react.

We have decisively changed the carbon cycle, the nitrogen cycle, and the rate of extinction.

It's one of the great gifts of having so little money that you are able to make these kinds of radical conceits that you could never afford to do had you had a reasonable budget,.