A loud voice is not always angry; a soft voice not always to be dismissed; and a well-placed silence can be the indisputable last word.

She could walk through a lightning storm without being touched; grab a bolt of lightning in the palm of her hand; use the heat of lightning to start the kindling going under her medicine pot. She turned the moon into salve, the stars into swaddling cloth, and healed the wounds of every creature walking up on two or down on four.

The last time you're doing something - knowing you're doing it for the last - makes it even more alive than the first.

The intelligence community, for the most part, has no accountability at all; to the Congress, to us the American people, and so they feel that they above the law.

Time is a funny thing. I was always puzzled with the way a single day could stretch itself out to the point of eternity in your mind, all while years melted down into the fraction of a second.

Spoiled. That's all it's about - can't live without this, can't live without that. You can live without anything you weren't born with, and you can make it through on even half of that.

That's one of the privileges of old age - you can give plenty of advice 'cause most folks think that's all you got left anyway.