So many people mentioned this at these rallies. You go to these things and it's kind of like an oldies concert. I mean, it's not hostile.

What once were two, are one

Our first responsibility in all things is to preserve our goodness of heart - then and only then act.

If you haven't read you don't have the voice. The lack of voice eliminates experience.

I was raised Catholic,I took from that was a sense of theater and drama, and also the idea that there were truths that couldn't actually be uttered directly but really had to be reached through ritual. You come out of those Masses so moved, and you're like, "Why did that happen?" And the truth of it is that it happened through an hour of highly enacted ritual.

Do those things that incline you toward the big questions, and avoid the things that would reduce you and make you trivial.

What I regret most in my life are failures of kindness. Those moments when another human being was there, in front of me, suffering, and I responded . . . sensibly. Reservedly. Mildly.