I would certainly make the attendance in college paid for, at least at a community college level or a state - you know, a sponsored university level so that if you wanted to go to college and if you had the grades - you might not go to Harvard - but you went to college.

The backside of a mountain is a fight against human nature. You have to care as much about yourself on the way down as you did on the way up.

Suddenly, details seemed extremely important. Details were something to grab on to, a way to insert myself into the story.

My father moved through theys of we, singing each new leaf out of each tree, (and every child was sure that spring danced when she heard my father sing).

There is a reason God limits man's days.

There are no random acts...We are all connected...You can no more separate one life from another than you can separate a breeze from the wind.

I took my orders, too. But if i couldn't keep you alive, I thought I could at least keep you together. In the middle of a big war, you go looking for a small idea to believe in. When you find one, you hold it the way a soldier holds his crucifix when he's praying in a foxhole.