I'm a great believer in geography being destiny.

The world turns on our every action, and our every omission, whether we know it or not.

We are all fixing what is broken. It is the task of a lifetime. We'll leave much unfinished for the next generation.

I was angry with myself because I still loved her, or at least I loved that dream of our togetherness. My feelings were unreasonable, irrational, and I couldn't change them. That hurt.

Yesterday misspent can't be recall'd Vanity makes beauty contemptible Wisdom is more valuable than riches.

She felt the familiar calmness of an emergency, but she understood the falseness of that feeling, now that it was her life at stake.

When I use the word 'healing', by that I mean that every disease has a physical element that we're very good at handling, but there's always a sense of the violation. 'Why me?' 'Why is my leg broken on the ski trip and not anyone else's?' And I think that medicine has done a terrible job of addressing that spiritual violation.