My way of finding a place in this world is to write one.

Morality is not a large, constructed *thing* you have or have not, but simply a capacity. Something you carry with you in your brain and in your hands.

Friends, there is nothing like your own family to make you appreciate strangers!

There's always a part of your nation's history that you haven't been told that... has a powerful impact on how you yourself may behave and may believe.

How is it right to slip free of an old skin and walk away from the scene of the crime? We came, we saw, we took away and we left behind, we must be allowed our anguish and our regrets.

the conspicuous consumption of limited resources has yet to be accepted widely as a spiritual error, or even bad manners

It's the same struggle for each of us, and the same path out: the utterly simple, infinitely wise, ultimately defiant act of loving one thing and then another, loving our way back to life.