When once misfortune enters a house, silence is in vain.

Unless we close our eyes we are always deceived.

The sun loved me again when it saw that the stars would not abandon me.

Do the difficult thing

As we grow old, the beauty steals inward.

When I do work, I feel the same sort of urgency as I ever did. If I didn't feel that, I don't think I would wish to be doing it. I wouldn't really see the point.

I started early, took my dog, And visited the sea; The mermaids in the basement Came out to look at me

We [U.S.S.R. and U.S.A.] can exist peacefully together if we don't indulge in too much mutual fault-finding in all kinds of trifles.

To break a Navy Seal, you have to kill us. That's why we can make it into our training. That's why we can call ourselves Seals because the only way your gonna break us is to kill us.

You'll notice my eyes have sort of glazed over.

Donald Trump amplifies the worst instincts. And his nationalism is really a white racist supremacist nationalism.

In the degree that we remember and retell our stories and create new ones we become the authors, the authorities, of our own lives.