I guess that’s what growing up is. Saying good-by to a lot of things. Sometimes it is easy and sometimes it isn’t. But it is all right.

To speak a language is to take on a world, a culture.

Hasn't there always been a moon?""Bless you. Not in the slightest. I remember the day the moon came. We looked up in the sky--it was all dirty brown and sooty gray here then, not green and blue...

For me, the opposite of happiness isn't sadness but boredom.

From my experience, meditating can bring up the most stressful thoughts.

There is a big difference between being a leader and actually leading.

I'll never stop wanting to kiss you," he whispered.

We’re destroying the world because we are, in a very literal and deliberate way, at war with it.

We didn't have a drill so he would burn the holes through the wood with a metal rod that he heated up in a fire. Can you imagine an ordinary crew doing that?

You will be judged in years to come by how you responded to genocide on your watch.

Given a choice between two bald political candidates, the American people will vote for the less bald of the two.