the reverse side of love is unbearable loss.

We're all born with the greatest treasures we'll ever have in life. One of those treasures is your mind, another is your heart.

Israeli occupation exposes us very young to the extremes of our emotions, until we cannot feel except in the extreme.

I know she is crying. Her tears fall on the wrong side, into the bottomless well inside her.

Under the broken promises of superpowers and under the worlds indifference to spilled Arab blood.

Always" is a good word to believe in.

I feel sad for him. Sad for the boy bound to the killer. I am sad for the youth betrayed by their leaders for symbols and flags and war and power.

Death, in its certainty, is exacting its due respect and repose before it takes my hand.

Would words shatter the immensity of life and death so close to one another?

I loved her in spite of myself. I loved her immeasurably.Infinitely. And I feared that love as much as I feared my own fury at theworld.

How fate is stubborn and holds to habit.

Just you and me against the world.Always and forever.

To be better equipped for the tests that the year will bring — read a textbook. To prepare for the tests that life will bring — read a book.

Christ's work needs no repetition. It is final because it is perfect.

What a quality of innocence people have when they don't expect to be harmed.

I don't think I've actually drunk a beer for 15 years, except a few Guinnesses in Dublin, where it's the law.

We developed during the 1990s a series of budget process rules that helped us bring to heel these deficits, diminishing every year and moving the budget so into surplus.

I definitely feel like I'm more of an artist than an athlete. But I'm good at both.

My anger tells me firstly that there's a need of mine that's not getting met.

I am coming to terms with the fact that loving someone requires a leap of faith, and that a soft landing is never guaranteed.