We can lift ourselves out of ignorance, we can find ourselves as creatures of excellence and intelligence and skill.

You don't love hatred and evil, of course. You have to practice and see the real gull, the good in every one of them, and to help them see it in themselves. That's what I mean by love.

What matters is how I use what I know, every minute of every day; how I use it to remember, in the midst of the game.

Why had such a promising world been crucified on the tree of obligation, thorned by duties, hanged by hypocrisy, smothered by customs?

Some choices we live not only once but a thousand times over, remembering them for the rest of our lives.

When one individual writer sings her song of beauty, she changes the lives of a million others.

Two thousand years ago, five thousand, they didn't have a word for imagination, and faith was the best they could come up with for a pretty solemn bunch of followers.