[h]ope, like a desert aloe. Hope, stubborn and bitter to the taste. That hides water. That bears the drought. An ugly plant with the power to heal.

To lose a sibling is to lose the one different from you. There’s no one now against whom to say: But I am like this. I am this.

He made her think of ruins, of mysterious places in shadow and darkness, of storms and torrents of rain.

I'm sucking on a cancer stick trying to think of something inspiring to say to help someone have a better life. That's "Irony".

Years ago I was diagnosed with a condition, and my doctors prescribed human growth hormone and testosterone for its treatment. Under medical supervision, I have continued to use both medications.

True faith is belief in the reality of absolute values.

When you make as many speeches and you talk as much as I do and you get away from the text, it's always a possibility to get a few words tangled here and there.

She searched the truth with an anguish almost as great as her terrible fear of finding it .

The one great poem of New England is her Sunday.

People are always coming up to me with my books and saying, 'You write these things I think but I could never say,'

My belief is that I wasn't born into Judaism by accident, and so I needed to find ways to honor that.

It has not fallen to your lot to command great armies. You had to create them, organize them and inspire them.