"Donâ€™t beg anybody for anything, especially love."

-- Toni Morrison

“My Army reserve service was in the 1990s. It was, more than anything else, an opportunity for me to express gratitude. My understanding of and admiration for the American armed forces is deeper, better informed as a result. I'm among those who believe that military or other citizen service should be an expected part of every American's life.”
“There was always a piano around the house and I've got other brothers and sisters but I'm the youngest, and none of them ever wanted to play it. So I guess I was the only one that was gonna end up playing it, if it was one of us.”
“It must be, I thought, one of the race's most persistent and comforting hallucinations to trust that "it can't happen here" -- that one's own time and place is beyond cataclysm.”
“[T]he obverse of facile emotion in the 14th century was a general insensitivity to the spectacle of pain and death.”
“If you knew you had to fight for your life tomorrow, would you change your training today?”
“God's dream is that you and I and all of us will realize that we are family, that we are made for togetherness, for goodness, and for compassion.”
“Rock n' roll seems to have changed society much more than any politician, I think it really has.”
“Once players have my trust, they have it.”

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