War contributes greatly to global warming, which shouldn't surprise us. All those bombs going off, all those rockets, all those planes and helicopters. All that fuel of various kinds being used. It pollutes the air and water of this very fragile and interconnected planet.

In search of my mother's garden, I found my own.

Freedom, after all, is like love: the more you give to others, the more you have.

Listen, God loves everything you love, and a mess of stuff you don't.

Our mothers and grandmothers ... moving to music not yet written.

I'm not being disrespectful of the medium; it's just not as important as the work that I actually do [books].

As I get older, I realize that the thing I value the most is good-heartednes s.