It felt good to sit around and agree, to have a common enemy and a shared struggle. It felt good to be understood.

But war had a taming effect

What he wanted to say was that two thousand years of peace could be undone in a month of war.

An entire lifetime can change in one afternoon. The rest of the world can continue on, unaware of a quiet, solitary cataclysm occurring a few feet away.

To be around family is to feel the possibility of growing roots again.

He believes that people have destroyed religion and religion has destroyed people. He says he believes in God, but he doesn't believe in people.

What is gone is gone and will not come back. When the earth swallows, it swallows forever and we are left to stumble along feeling the absences. These are our burdens.

We all cross a hundred peaks to get even this far. And there will be more before we each make it to whatever God has fated for us.

Cornered mothers pray for strange things.

The elderly become invisible sooner than we would hope.

Yes, well, people are very good at destroying things, good things.

The restless spirit never loses its wings. If sometimes it cannot fly, it is because during those moments the sky vanishes.

There’s no such thing as half family.

Ideas are just a multiplier of execution.

I don't remember anybody ever pointing me out as a dancing prodigy, but I played a not bad second base.

Researchers found a frog in new guinea that is so tiny, they believe it's the smallest vertebrate on the planet. It has the tiniest backbone of any living creature, except members of Congress.

There are important questions about protecting and securing the border, but we don't need to build a wall.

I'm Polish, I carry no grudges.

If you get lost, you can always be found.

Come, come, leave business to idlers, and wisdom to fools: they have need of 'em: wit be my faculty, and pleasure my occupation, and let father Time shake his glass.

I would not call myself Catholic anymore, but I went to 16 years of Catholic school: grade school, high school and college.