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

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.

I am looking for the human who admits his flaws Who shocks the adversary By being kinder not stronger What would that be like? We don't even know

if you can live life you believe in, you will have everything you need to reach your dream.

there is you and you.this is a relationship.this is the most important relationship.

Sometimes the hardest, bravest thing in the world is to let someone love you.

Anyone in England who puts himself forward to be elected to a position of political power is almost bound to be socially or emotionally insecure, or criminally motivated, or mad.

Times are tough in the music industry, and now more than ever we need people like the team at Paste looking out for artists on the fringe of the mainstream.

Scientists are human-they're as biased as any other group. But they do have one great advantage in that science is a self-correcting process.

They couldn't, in the National Party, run a bath and if either the deputy leader or the leader tried to, Sir Robert would run away with the plug.

Teams are going to try to hit me because they think I can't take a hit. I think I've proven over my career that I can.

The firsts go away - first love, first kiss, first baby. You have to create new ones.

What I wanted to do [in Allied] was get two characters who fall in love for real, across the barricade, and then it transcends the war.