Unexpected kindness is the most powerful, least costly, and most underrated agent of human change. Kindness that catches us by surprise brings out the best in our natures.

Slow down, especially at the beginning of a speech. You'll get the audience's attention by pausing.

Clinton's an unusually good liar. Unusually Good. Do you realize that?

Cuba wants to get rid of a dictator, and baseball needs a dictator.

There is no force more liberating than the knowledge that you are fighting for others.

It's not clear in the U.S. at the moment, either. We're going through another election.

The cheapest gift I have to give is kindness, and it is the best.

When you're fighting for economic and social justice, you're always fighting for the minority.

When I say be skeptical of everything I mean it. Just because someone was elected to do a job doesn't mean that person has any idea of what they're doing.

I thought dying for your country was the worst thing that could happen to you. I think killing for your country can be a lot worse. Because that's the memory that haunts.

The idea that somebody who has done something horrible in a war is not willing to talk about it for 32 years is hardly a shocking idea. Quite the contrary.

I’ve married a man who is so afraid of living, he’d rather destroy the very thing that makes him feel alive.

Just because one person's problem is less traumatic than another's doesn't mean they're required to hurt less

Anyone can be a story. Everyone is.

Perhaps when a nation goes through a period of upheaval, those who should become politicians, do.

To suggest that conservatives have a monopoly on hate is an ideological mugging of reality.

True joy is the earnest which we have of heaven, it is the treasure of the soul, and therefore should be laid in a safe place, and nothing in this world is safe to place it in.

The older you get, the more you find yourself looking for things you used to see and liked when you were younger.

It's always important to be yourself.

..you wanted to be the Superman who was never Clark Kent

Opening to the sacred, we transform our vision of ourselves.