"It's hard for me to sympathize with a young person who chooses to go into the military because they know where they're going. I think we need to start depopulating the military."

“The most extraordinary of all the things called miracles, related in the New Testament, is that of the devil flying away with Jesus Christ, and carrying him to the top of a high mountain; and to the top of the highest pinnacle of the temple, and showing him and promising to him all the kingdoms of the world . How happened it that he did not discover America? or is it only with kingdoms that his sooty highness has any interest.”

“The columbine ... is a graceful slender creature, a female seeking retirement, and growing freest and most graceful where it is most alone. I observed that the more shaded plants were always the tallest.”

Source : Dorothy Wordsworth, William Wordsworth (2007). “Home at Grasmere: Extracts from the Journal of Dorothy Wordsworth and from the Poems of William Wordsworth”, p.258, Penguin UK

“I plead with you to have the courage to refrain from judging and criticizing those around you, as well as the courage to make certain that everyone is included and feels loved and valued.”

“I admire writers who can remain objective and distanced, but that doesn't seem to be in my toolbox, somehow.”

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“I know that presidents often have really bad phone conversations. What they usually don't do is go out and talk about it. That gets to my point about doing some damage on the periphery of our core policies.”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org

“For me, spirit is the impulse towards life, the Eros in a person leaping forward, whereas soul refers to something possibly long.. suffering, where meanings are made, where there is a sense of this gathering of perceptions, that our death is not the most important thing, nor our life.”

“Most Sunday magazines, with the New York Times as an exception, are kind of sleepy, weekend service vehicles to move living room products.”

“One of the greatest gifts my brother and I received from my mother was her love of literature and language. With their boundless energy, libraries open the door to these worlds and so many others. I urge young and old alike to embrace all that libraries have to offer.”