Humans are designed to be with other humans, even those with mixed blood. They need each other's laughter. They require each other's sorrows.

They say that lightning never strikes in the same place twice, but the same is not true for courage. As it turns out, when courage strikes, it almost always begets more courage.

Memory is a slippery thing. When something terrible happens to you, like the loss of someone you love...memory can turn into a soft blanket that hides you from the loss.

Purring is not so different from praying. To a tree, a cat's purr is one of the purest of all prayers, for in it lies a whole mixture of gratitude and longing, the twin ingredients of every prayer.

Resounding…with wit, courage, and compassion. Skinny will speak to everyone who has ever felt invisible or unlovable.

Nosotros somos paisanos. We are fellow countrymen. We come from the same soil.

Paper Covers Rock is dazzling in its intensity and intelligence, spell-binding in its terrible beauty.

An entire nation, it seemed, was standing in one long breadline, desperate for even the barest essentials. It was a crisis of monumental proportions. It was known as the Great Depression.

Daily reading is a sacred knowledge.

Dubai,I think is a big bore - a city deliberately built to appeal to tourism, and only built for that purpose, and not possessing a valid culture or history of its own.

Your best champion and cheerleader is yourself. Always be proud of your accomplishments, big or small.

Investing for the poor requires participation from the entire community.

Dying legacies are a miserable substitute for living benevolence.

But intolerant,narrow minds with no imagination are like parasites that transform the host,change form,and continue to thrive. They're a lost cause, and I don't want anyone like that coming in here.

I wear tweed jackets and button-down shirts. I am a 1955 graduate of Harvard University who drives a 1968 Mercedes.

One writes out of one thing only - one's own experience.

I always remember loving Even Stevens - that show was so brilliant and funny and smart.

Democracy has not failed; the intelligence of the race has failed before the problems the race has raised