Changing circumstances always present great opportunities as well as new challenges. Once you recognise the relationship, you’ll understand the need for passion and persistence (KR, 1995)

Taking the time to reflect on how you arrived at where you are today can have a massive impact on what your life will be like tomorrow.

If there is one basic element in our Constitution, it is civilian control of the military.

Ann Sothern's dressing room...was unbelievably lush and beautiful. More elegant than many homes I've been in.

There is exchange of all things for fire and of fire for all things, as there is of wares for gold and of gold for wares.

To be saved is only this-salvation from our own selfishness.

This myth that America has this atomic bomb that makes us right, it makes us good, it makes us set the agenda for the world. Everywhere, we can go global, we determine.

Racial justice is key to a compassionate, inclusive, dynamic society.

A clerk and a ladder and warm golden light, and then: the right book exactly, at exactly the right time.

Everything comes to us in fifteen-second sound bites and photo opportunities. All possibility for ambiguity - the most precious trait of any adequate analysis - is erased.

Four ducks on a pond, / A grass-bank beyond, / A blue sky of spring, / White clouds on the wing: / What a little thing / To remember for years - / To remember with tears!.