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

You can achieve a goal; you never really achieve your purpose, because your purpose is ongoing. It never stops.

Everything of this life as a mortal is fiction. It seems real, but...

You wait a lifetime to meet someone who understands you, accepts you as you are. At the end, you find that someone, all along, has been you.

don't you think between here and now we will see each other once or twice?

In the United States Christmas has become the rape of an idea.

Sooner I'd try to change history than turn political, than try convincing others to write letters or to vote or to march or to do something they didn't already feel like doing.