When small drops began to fall and darken the world in penny-shaped circles, no one around him scurried for cover. For lonely people, rain is a chance to be touched.

Hands have their own language.

For lonely people, rain is a chance to be touched.

I think people would be happier if they admitted things more often. In a sense we are all prisoners of some memory, or fear, or disappointment - we are all defined by something we can’t change.

The beauty of artifacts is in how they reassure us we’re not the first to die.

I wonder if things can happen too early or too late or if everything happens at exactly the right time. If so, how sad and beautiful.

You were unsure which pain is worse -- the shock of what happened or the ache for what never will.

Every moment is the paradox of now or never.

For some people, life is the process of knocking through walls to get out. For others, it is the building of walls.

The most significant conversations of our lives occur in silence.

I read books because I love them, not because I think I should read them.

Men are created different they lose their social freedom and their individual autonomy in seeking to become like each other.

The reasons for food insecurity are many and varied. But part of the problem is the global farming systems.

I've always been a streaky hitter. For the most part, when my home runs come, they come in bunches.

Don't trust the beginnings, truth is told in the last moments.

Any positive thinker is compelled to see everything in the light of his own convictions.

Death is the great gamer with a sleeve of tricks.

exile ... might be the largest new state created by the twentieth century and the psychology of the twenty-first century.

[Confederate flag] it's a symbol of racial hatred.

Do not worry about the incarnation of ideas. If you are a poet, your works will contain them without your knowledge - they will be both moral and national if you follow your inspiration freely.

Men have an extraordinarily erroneous opinion of their position in nature; and the error is ineradicable.