"The sort of seeing cruelty and callousness..." - Quote by Barack Obama

“You've got audiences cheering at the prospect of somebody dying because they don't have health care and booing a service member in Iraq because they're gay. That's not reflective of who we are.”

“n case you missed it, this week, there was a tragedy in Kansas. Ten thousand people died - an entire town destroyed.”

“Right around my first year of college - I remember "Song of Solomon," by Toni Morrison, just moved me tremendously. The power of language and how it can peel back truths, bring things to the surface. So I learned a lot from fiction.”

“Youth, which is forgiven everything, forgives itself nothing: age, which forgives itself everything, is forgiven nothing.”

“It takes a long time to become young.”

“Bodily decrepitude is wisdom; youngWe loved each other and were ignorant.”

“In all communities you find groups that behave badly. But you must understand them too.”

“Was it all put into words, or did both understand that they had the same thing at heart and in their minds, so that there was no need to speak of it aloud, and better not to speak of it?”

“His jest will savour but of shallow wit, When thousands weep, more than did laugh at it.”