"the snow ... came in thick tufts like new wool - washed before the weaver spins it."

-- Leslie Marmon Silko

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“Travel is the discovery of truth; an affirmation of the promise that human kind is far more beautiful than it is flawed. With each trip comes a new optimism that where there is despair and hardship, there are ideas and people just waiting to be energized, to be empowered, to make a difference for good.”
“You can always spot clothes made in a good place.”
“God is in the slums, in the cardboard boxes where the poor play house. God is in the silence of a mother who has infected her child with a virus that will end both their lives. God is in the cries heard under the rubble of war. God is in the debris of wasted opportunity and lives, and God is with us if we are with them.”

Source : Keynote Address at the 54th National Prayer Breakfast, delivered 2 February 2006, The Hilton Washington Hotel, Washington, D.C.
“My wife is one of the best wimin on this Continent, altho' she isn't always gentle as a lamb with mint sauce.”

Source : Charles Farrar Browne “The Complete Works of Artemus Ward, Part 7”, Library of Alexandria
“The French believe that kids feel confident when they're able to do things for themselves, and do those things well. After children have learned to talk, adults don't praise them for saying just anything. They praise them for saying interesting things, and for speaking well.”

Source : Pamela Druckerman (2014). “Bringing Up Bébé: One American Mother Discovers the Wisdom of French Parenting (now with Bébé Day by Day: 100 Keys to French Parenting)”, p.158, Penguin
“You're going to see ups and downs your whole career.”
“I study much, and the more I study, the oftener I go back to those first principles which are so simple that childhood itself can lisp them.”
“In the first act, you get the audience's attention - once you have it, they will repay you in the second. Play through the laughs if you have to. It will only make the audience believe there are so many of them that they missed a few.”

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