our limbs which had already traveled far beyond her world, carrying the click of distances in the smooth, untroubled soles of their shoes.

I love the solitude of reading. I love the deep dive into someone else's story, the delicious ache of a last page.

Before you know kindness as the deepest thing inside, you must know sorrow as the other deepest thing.

Poetry calls us to pause. There is so much we overlook, while the abundance around us continues to shimmer, on its own.

There is a place to stand where you can see so many lights you forget you are one of them.

... the real heroes of race and culture would always be the people who stepped out of their own line to make a larger circle.

You know, those of us who leave our homes in the morning and expect to find them there when we go back - it's hard for us to understand what the experience of a refugee might be like.

This is the world I want to live in. The shared world.

Being good felt like a heavy coat, so I took it off.

Before you know what kindness really is you must lose things, feel the future dissolve in a moment like salt in a weakened broth.

Energy is everything. Rubbing happy and sad together creates energy.

Vengeance is a monster of appetite, forever bloodthirsty and never filled.

True felicity consists of its own consciousness.

When I look at what Donald trump have proposed, you have what is called now the Trump loophole, because it would so advantage you and the business you do.

I think at an early age I learned not to judge people.

Ripe old age, cheerful, useful, and understanding, is one of the finest influences in the world.

I'll do business with anyone, but I'll only go sailing with gentlemen.

The greatest sound in the theater is silence.

You always have the memory of the bottom, and fear of the bottom. And when you start going to the bottom you panic.

One thing about cold weather: it brings out the statistician in everyone.

I often think we're most happy when we forget the time.