Winter was gray and mean upon the city and every night was a package of cold bleak hours, like the hours in a cell that had no door.

Be a dog, but don't be a younger brother.Proverb.

The best American is one who considers themselves as a citizen of the world.

I had the idea to become really emotionally detached, and a lot of the time I've treated people that I've cared about a lot really unfairly.

It is impossible for a man to be freed from the habit of sin before he hates it, just as it is impossible to receive forgiveness before confessing his trespasses.

I felt like my vote was the vote that put [Obama] into office. It was down to one vote, and that was going to be my vote. And that may not be true, but that's how much power it felt like I had.

You can't accomplish anything worthwhile if you inhibit yourself

The opposite of Loneliness is not Togetherness , It's Intimacy.

I am interested in the size of your intention. It is better to overstate the important than to understate it.

Where you stand determines what you see and what you do not see; it determines also the angle you see it from; a change in where you stand changes everything.

I was sad because I had no shoes, until I met a man who had no feet. So I said, "Got any shoes you’re not using?