What I want is so simple I almost can't say it: elementary kindness.

You can’t replace people you love with other people…But you can trust that you’re not going to run out of people to love.

There was a roaring in my ears and I lost track of what they were saying. I believe it was the physical manifestation of unbearable grief.

God, why does a mortal man have children? It is senseless to love anything this much.

The very least you can do in your life is figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof.

The flowers were beaten down, their bent-over heads bejeweled with diamond droplets like earring on sad, rich widows

What I want is so simple I almost can’t say it: elementary kindness.

A dog can’t think that much about what he’s doing, he just does what feels right.

Knowledge is a tool, and like all tools, its impact is in the hands of the user.

The United Staes had never in its history intervened to stop genocide and had in fact rarely even made a point of condemning it as it occurred,

Good for you and be proud of yourself because you have your priorities in order. Be proud of yourself if you are responsible, reliable, persistent, and take your job and education seriously.

Man is different from animals in that he speculates, a high-risk activity.

The United States recognizes the provisional government as the de facto authority of the new State of Israel.

Most pastors have a hard time grasping a vision. But vision is the indispensable quality of a leader.

For neither our greatest fears nor our greatest hopes are beyond the limits of our strength--we are able in the end both to dominate the first and to achieve the second.

Life's so full that you just take it one day at a time.

When you're reaching for a star, there's a long way to fall.

Good writers are visible just behind their words.