Words have no power when someone isn't listening to you anymore

Toughness isn't about you and what you want, it's about not quitting because others need you.

For every thing that lives is Holy.

we have forgotten what night tastes like, salted by full moon silver rupturingthe dark. we have forgotten how the skin sings when the lunar fervor unfurls across its follicles.

Trying to change someone who isn't willing to change, is like attempting to turn on the light after the energy provider has cut off the electricity.

Inspiration is an underexamined part of political life and presidential leadership.

As time goes on, the more I value doctors and plumbers. Doctors a little more. I can fix my own toilet but I still can't operate on myself.

That most sensitive, most delicate of instruments -- the mind of a little child!

Well, my comfort is, I am sure Jane will die of a broken heart, and then he will be sorry for what he has done.

...frequent streets and short blocks are valuable because of the fabric of intricate cross-use that they permit among the users of a city neighbouhood.

We all fight on two fronts, the one facing the enemy, the one facing what we do to the enemy.

My own daughters weren't able to study in Turkey because of their headscarves, so they went to the United States.