But surely, if you trust God, you can believe the bad moments pass, and the good memories are worth enough.

Time--our youth--it never really goes, does it? It is all held in our minds.

I have no plans for the money but it'll be awfully nice to have it.

[Time was] an accordion, all the air squeezed out of it as you grew old.

Now even reformers needed political machines.

Be patient, as you must always be patient with new pale seeds buried in the dark ground. When you are stronger, you can begin to think again. But now is the time to feel.

To expect too much is to have a sentimental view of life and this is a softness that ends in bitterness.

Joy doesn't betray but sustains activism. And when you face a politics that aspires to make you fearful, alienated and isolated, joy is a fine initial act of insurrection.

Your problems are out there. But they're small. They only grow out of proportion when they climb inside your head.

I'm sure some people have an absolute grasp of where they are in their careers. I just don't think about it that much.

She's as headstrong as an allegory on the banks of the Nile.

To tell of disappointment and misery, to thicken the darkness of futurity, and perplex the labyrinth of uncertainty, has been always a delicious employment of the poets

Bill Clinton was in the line of great progressive presidents who faced the realities in his own time and applied innovative solutions to problems.

I believe that every human being has an understanding of art. What is separating us is smaller than what is unifying us.