. . . the solution is not to toss youthful offenders into jail or prisons. We long ago recognized alcoholism to be a disease, and abondoned efforts to treat alcoholics simply by locking them up.

Oregon is an inspiration. Whether you come to it, or are born to it, you become entranced by our state's beauty, the opportunity she affords, and the independent spirit of her citizens.

Heroes are not giant statues framed against a red sky. They are people who say: This is my community, and it's my responsibility to make it better.

This activist loves Oregon more than he loves life.

You all know I have terminal cancer - and I have a lot of it. But what you may not know is that stress induces its spread and induces its activity. Stress may even bring it on.

I tried to hang myself with a bungee cord. I kept almost dying.

Growing older is a precious commodity. Only a few can endure to achieve that distinguished distinction and quality.

We make the world most possible by helping the people we encounter be their most possible.

All of us in the church need “grace-healed eyes” to see the potential in others for the same grace that God has so lavishly bestowed on us.

There are thousands of other women to choose from. You understand me? And this court runs on ambition alone.

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We are not so easily guided by our most prominent weaknesses as by those of which we are least aware.

It's not getting any better, is it? I don't want my 19-year-old boy going into the army. I love these little kids. They understand how passionate I am.

Two tasks at the beginning of your life: to narrow your orbit more and more, and ever and again to check whether you are not in hiding somewhere outside your orbit.

There's no right or wrong in the study of enlightenment. There's only experience.