I have never distinguished readily between thinking and dreaming. I know my life would be much different if I could ever say, This I have learned from my senses, while that I have merely imagined.

Because, once alone, it is impossible to believe that one could ever have been otherwise. Loneliness is an absolute discovery.

Memory is the sense of loss, and loss pulls us after it.

You never know when you might be seeing someone for the last time.

Of my conception I know only what you know of yours. It occurred in darkness and I was unconsenting... By some bleak alchemy what had been mere unbeing becomes death when life is mingled with it.

It's better to have nothing, ' the children were saying.

...morality is a check upon the strongest temptations.

Dawn and its excesses always reminded me of heaven, a place where I have always known I would not be comfortable.

I have never understood why it should be considered derogatory to the Creator to suppose that He has a sense of humor.

Those who are fear'd, are hated.

American ideals do not require to be changed so much as they require to be understood and applied.

If you want to bring the people of this world together, you have to be willing to engage with countries that do not share our [western] democratic values.

The day is gone, and all its sweets are gone!

Too often our Washington reflex is to discover a problem and then throw money at it, hoping it will somehow go away.

Saying is one thing and doing is another; we are to consider the sermon and the preacher distinctly and apart.

The dreamers of the day are dangerous... for they may act their dream with open eyes, to make it possible.

Our unborn never got to grow, never got to see what's, next, In this world full of countless threats.

Life keeps getting better. If anything, you start to carry a certain pride in having survived all those years.