Her grief grieved her. His devastated her.

There is nothing that pleases me more than a beautiful sentence ... It is something that satisfies me.

From being a dream, dams have become a very cynical corrupt enterprise; a way of letting governments lay their hands on huge sums of money; a way of centralizing resources; a way of snatching rivers away from the poor and giving them to the rich. And so in a sense they've become monuments to corruption.

But can we, should we, let apprehensions about the future immobilize us in the present?

The people who created the crisis in the first place will not be the ones that come up with a solution.

We ought to say, "Occupy Wall Street, not Iraq," "Occupy Wall Street, not Afghanistan," "Occupy Wall Street, not Palestine." The two need to be put together. Otherwise people might not read the signs.

Human beings seem unable to live without war, but they are also unable to live without love.