You have only to forgive once. To resent, you have to doit all day, every day. You have to keep remembering all the bad things" Frank to Hannah Roennfeldt

Scars are just another kind of memory.

That's how life goes on - protected by the silence that anesthetizes shame.

It is a luxury to do something that serves no practical purpose: the luxury of civilization.

From when she was a baby, Tom has taught the girl to respect, but not fear, the forces of nature- the lightning that might strike the light tower on Janus, the oceans that batter the island.

Your family's never in your past. You carry it around with you everywhere.

To make sense of it - that's the challenge. To bear witness to the death, without being broken by the weight of it.

Oh, but my treasure, it is so much less exhausting. You only have to forgive once. To resent, you have to do it all day, every day.

The only thing we can do is love that little girl as much as she deserves. And never, never hurt her!

What are you suggesting I do Ralph?’‘I’m suggesting you tell the bloody truth whatever it is. The only place lying leads is trouble.’“Sometimes that’s the only place telling the truth get you, too.

Stick to now. Put right the things you can put right today, and let the ones from back then go. Leave the rest to the angels, or the devil or whoever's in charge of it.

Most misunderstandings in the world could be avoided if people would simply take the time to ask, "What else could this mean?

Oh God, what's wrong with me? Why does nothing ever work out?

In history-as-politics, the 'future' is that vacuum in time waiting to be filled with the antics of statesmen.

I don't really care if people get upset. I think I'm doing my job if people get upset; I want them to think! We all want them to think, hopefully.

I don't understand bus lanes. Why do poor people have to get to places quicker than I do?

I am sure that Senator Clinton would make a good President. I have no doubt that Senator Clinton would make a good President.

The new source of power is not money in the hands of a few, but information in the hands of many.

Be merry if you are wise.

Education-whether its object be children or adults, individuals or an entire people-consists in creating motives.

Screw-ups are the mark of excellence.