Eternity of struggle is life.

Even though we'd put each other through hell, we'd found heaven. Maybe it was more than a couple of sinners like us deserved, but I wasn't going to complain.

That, sir, depends on whether I embrace your mistress or your politics.

Do not seek revenge and call it justice.

Mediocrity is not allowed to poets, either by the gods or men.

I had two children. I had a nanny to manage my kids.

I think 'The Giver' is such a moral book, so filled with important truths, that I couldn't believe anyone would want to suppress it, to keep it from kids.

You ask anybody what their number one fear is, and it's public humiliation. Multiply that on a global scale, and that's what I've been through.

To take nature and natural play away from children may be tantamount to withholding oxygen.

To reap a perpetual harvest you need to sow a perpetual seed. I got a need for seed.

Nature's old felicities.