I saw the end of his life right there in that single moment. His pride, his decency, his secrets, his death.

My darling girl, when are you going to realize that being normal is not necessarily a virtue? It rather denotes a lack of courage." - Aunt Frances

Others said May was best, that sweet green time when lilacs bloomed and gardens along Main Street were filled with sugary pink peonies and Dutch tulips.

It was a great escape for me and it was a way to take a break from what was going on in my own world, to go into another world.

Be careful what you wish for. I know that for a fact. Wishes are brutal, unforgiving things. They burn your tongue the moment they're spoken and you can never take them back.

I wonder how a lioness will manage in a dovecote. Can you put away your teeth and claws?

The weak are cruel. The strong have no need to be.

Once you know some things, you can't unknow them. It's a burden that can never be given away.

This was what it meant to be human, to know that time moved and all things changed.

No one knows you like a person with whom you've shared a childhood. No one will ever understand you in quite the same way.

The evening had turned sweet and blue.

Every day you play with the light of the universe.

We should pray for a sane mind in a sound body.

The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.

Great beauty, great strength, and great riches are really and truly of no great use; a right heart exceeds all

For digital natives, public schools are jails

Over my 24 years in the Senate, Jim, I've never voted against anyone because of their substantive views.

The newspaperman has become a walking plague. He spreads the contagion of lies and calumnies.

... the blinding Hiroshima flash... literally photographed the shadow cast by beings and things, so that every surface immediately became war's recording surface, its film.

Hold on to me as we go, as we roll down this unfamiliar road. And although this wave is stringing us along, just know you're not alone, 'cause I'm gonna make this place your home.

I wanted life to be episodic. I wanted to be a magazine photographer and I was willing to do what it took to become that.