What is home but a place where you are truly known?

For the first time in my life, I felt the pain of missing people I had not yet left.

How wonderful to be read to. To be carried from this world and into another, born away on words.

The heart, once broken, stayed broken.

What is left when there is no love? A rope and rock.

Absolution is not the same as understanding.

City of memories, city of mirrors.

All stories end when they have returned to their beginnings.

So, at the last, a story.

Behind every great hatred is a love story.

It was like leading people to the edge of a cliff, showing them the view, and then shoving them off.

When I hang upside down and write the wrong way up, will my letters be upside down or the right way up?

...if George Washington founded the nation, John Marshall defined it.

Obama repeatedly has condemned Hamas as a terrorist organization that should be isolated until it renounces violence and recognizes Israel.

It's an important part of being a member of society to know what's happening in the world and to know where you fall in it and what you can do about it.

I have no desire to look back, I only want to look forward to the things that are still ahead of me.

The businessman says 'If I don't do it first, somebody else will.' The artist says 'If I don't do it first, nobody else will.'

Learning takes us through many states of life, but it fails utterly in the hour of danger and temptation. Then faith alone saves.

If, by chance, you find that you are losing hope, tap back into those who inspire you.

Considering the way the world is, one happy day is almost a miracle.

Auguries of innocence "The emmet's inch and eagle's mile Make lame philosophy to smile. He who doubts from what he sees Will ne'er believe, do what you please.