In brokenness comes beauty, divine fragility.

Open wide the mind's cage-door, She'll dart forth, and cloudward soar.

I had no male friends now, though I did have a strong community of intelligent, supportive, funny women and I felt confused as to why they weren't enough for me,

Reduce the influence of religion upon your life.

Most full lives are filled with empty gestures.

There is a person whose acquaintance and conversation I do earnestly recommend unto you as thing of the greatest advantage: you will be surprised when I tell you it is yourself.

I am a coffee fanatic. Once you go to proper coffee, you can't go back. You cannot go back.

It is necessary to ensure that the requirement to combat terrorism is not used to clamp down on freedom of expression, legitimate dissent, freedom of association and so on.

My true-love hath my heart, and I have his, By just exchange, one for the other given; I hold his dear, and mine he cannot miss, There never was a better bargain driven.

The United States is a country where everybody can start again.

Everybody's seen a stream or a wood they knew replaced by a strip mall.