There is nothing wrong with compromising. Even if you compromise almost everything.

If the thrill of hunting were in the hunt, or even in the marksmanship, a camera would do just as well.

You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.

Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living.

The sky slowly pulled up its blue dress to reveal night.

The more you love someone, he came to think, the harder it is to tell them. It surprised him that strangers didn't stop each other on the street to say I love you.

His voice was handsome and broken, like a cobblestone street.

To feel alone is to be alone.

Words are capable of making experience more vivid, and also of organizing it. They can scare us, and they can comfort us.

When we eat factory-farmed meat we live, literally, on tortured flesh. Increasingly, that tortured flesh is becoming our own.

It has shown me that everything is illuminated in the light of the past. It is always along the side of us...on the inside, looking out.

I had trouble listening to adults who didn't really mean anything that they said

They say that 'life is too short, ' but I must say that if you live each day happily and productively, it is quite long enough.

Go and do thou likewise.

Let us watch well our beginnings and results will manage themselves.

If something comes from your heart, it will reach the heart of your audience.

The question before the advanced nations is not whether they can afford to help the developing nations, but whether they can afford not to do so.

Everywhere the fatal spirit of imitation, of reference to European standards, penetrates and threatens to blight whatever of original growth might adorn the soil.

We are living at an extraordinary time in human history. And for many of us things are great. Things are great for me.

Nations are not ruined by one act of violence, but gradually and in an almost imperceptible manner by the depreciation of their circulating currency, through its excessive quantity.

One of my main goals is to become a sports broadcaster. That is the ultimate for me.