...to slip beneath the surface and soar along the silent bottom of the sea agile and shining in water honeycombed with light.

A map, it is said, organizes wonder.

Its beauty stirs the imagination, and I wonder if the last refuge of all that is truly wild lies not on earth but in light.

The only way I can describe the extent of my anxiety is to say that I felt as if I were pregnant with a rock.

You must keep looking on the bright side, because you won't find anything in the dark.

One is not rich by what one owns, but more by what one is able to do without with dignity.

To exaggerate is to weaken.

Care about what other people think and you will always be their prisoner.

We only get one planet.

Of course I have regrets; I'm not stupid.

Statistics are human beings with the tears wiped away.

Our democratic richness arrives when we're able to comprehend our collective humanity accurately.

If George Washington crossing the Delaware matters, so must his ruthless pursuit of the runagate Oney Judge.