We were going to leave a mark on the world but instead the world left marks on us.

It is love and friendship, the sanctity and celebration of our relationships, that not only support a good life, but create one. Through friendships, we spark and inspire one another's ambitions.

History is not the proper midden for digging up novelties. Perhaps that is one reason why a nation bent on novelty ignores it.

We are the only species which, when it chooses to do so, will go to great effort to save what it might destroy.

We are fossils in the making.

Hard writing makes easy reading.

Whatever landscape a child is exposed to early on, that will be the sort of gauze through which he or she will see all the world afterwards.