Yet she also longed for moments when she might be weak, when she need not prove anything to anyone.

She saw that he knew what loneliness was, that he understood why it might be raining inside a person even when the sun shone, that sadness needed no immediate cause.

How can anyone truthfully claim to love someone when they’re not prepared to share everything with that person, including their past?

She hoped that Tin Win would learn what she had learned over the years: that there are wounds time does not heal, though it can reduce them to a manageable size.

Eyes and ears are not the problem... It is rage that blinds and deafens us. Or fear. Envy, mistrust. The world contracts, gets all out of joint when you are angry or afraid.

If I had a dollar for every time someone asked, “What do you think about this logo?” I’d be rich.

The worthless usually live long.

Isn't it possible that self-esteem isn't causal at all, but simply the happy side effect of a sturdy character, itself the product of unambiguous moral education?

Eating toast in the shower is the ultimate multitask

Arrogance, pedantry, and dogmatism...the occupational diseases of those who spend their lives directing the intellects of the young.

The first act of awe, when man was struck with the beauty or wonder of Nature, was the first spiritual experience.

Yep, Atlanta was burning. Again.

There were no embraces, because where there is great love there is often little display of it.

Along the borders to Ethiopia and Somalia, anarchy reigns, the police and military have retreated quite some distance.

Our intentions create our reality.