I know she is crying. Her tears fall on the wrong side, into the bottomless well inside her.

We're all born with the greatest treasures we'll ever have in life. One of those treasures is your mind, another is your heart.

Israeli occupation exposes us very young to the extremes of our emotions, until we cannot feel except in the extreme.

the reverse side of love is unbearable loss.

Under the broken promises of superpowers and under the worlds indifference to spilled Arab blood.

Always" is a good word to believe in.

I feel sad for him. Sad for the boy bound to the killer. I am sad for the youth betrayed by their leaders for symbols and flags and war and power.

Death, in its certainty, is exacting its due respect and repose before it takes my hand.

Would words shatter the immensity of life and death so close to one another?

I loved her in spite of myself. I loved her immeasurably.Infinitely. And I feared that love as much as I feared my own fury at theworld.

How fate is stubborn and holds to habit.

You're entirely bonkers. But I'll tell you a secret. All the best people are.

Prayer is not an option but a necessity.

I couldn't hit a wall with a sixgun but I can twirl one. It looks good.

It is in our faults and failings, not in our virtues, that we touch one another and find sympathy. We differ widely enough in our nobler qualities. It is in our follies that we are at one.

Talent, like beauty, to be pardoned, must be obscure and unostentatious.

A right election can only be made by those who have knowledge.

The more one is absorbed in fighting evil, the less one is tempted to place the good in question.

Never confuse activity with accomplishment.

We should let God be the One to praise us and not praise ourselves. For God detests those who commend themselves. Let others applaud our good deeds.

His virtues walked their narrow round, Nor made a pause, nor left a void; And sure the Eternal Master found The single talent well employed.