When we first meet what we love, we could become poets for our longing. When we are removed from what we love, we become singers of grief and weavers of elegant description.

That's what makes you a human being---that willingness to sing another one free.

A ray of light made a rainbow through the mist. [His] words had given her a small glimmer of hope — the kind of hope she thought had disappeared from her life forever.

Evil events from evil causes spring, And what you suffer flows from what you've done.

Although Damascus is considered the oldest city in the world, the date of its foundation going beyond tradition, there are very few relics of antiquity in or near it.

Disadvantaged kids many times don't have the support network that we all have. I know how important my parents were in my life and many of these kids don't have that support network.

With our financial house on fire, Obama makes clear both in in his speech and his budget that the essence of his presidency will be the transformation of health care, education and energy.

The important thing is neither your nationality nor the religion you professed, but how your faith translated itself in your life.

We desire to understand the world by giving names to the things we see, but these things are only the effects of something subtle.

My mother was a very literate person who had educated herself. She had an exceptional vocabulary.

When even those who should be happy by any reasonable measure are also not happy, there's got to be a serious systemic problem in humanity's culture.

Money is really just an idea.