For the sake of my country, and perhaps a little for the sake of my soul, I have given up the deep peace of being in opposition.

I had come to Yugoslavia to see what history meant in flesh and blood.

The soul that gives thanks can find comfort in everything

This letter is written on the skin of one of the water sprites who drowned your parents.''Ick!' I cried, and dropped the letter on the kitchen table.

People always call it luck when you’ve acted more sensibly than they have.

If you're going to lie, at least be good at it.

Temperance is love in training.

I don't know why people are so reluctant to say they're feminists. Could it be any more obvious that we still live in a patriarchal world when feminism is a bad word?

The view of the Earth from the Moon fascinated me -- a small disk, 240,000 miles away. . . . Raging nationalistic interests, famines, wars, pestilence, don't show from that distance.

I like to think that even with some of the more intense ones sometimes there is humour in there, you try to make a complete human being, whether the guy is good or bad.

If each one of us does our bit, we will be helping to keep global warming from harming our countries.

Creation is a book proclaiming the Creator. It is a book of beauty that our intellect reads, but through the passageways of our five senses.