“The difference between mediocrity and excellence is often a matter of effort.”

“Men won't easily give up a system in which half the world's population works for next to nothing...[and recognizes that]precisely because that half works for so little, it may have no energy left to fight for anything else.”

“The difference between being mediocre and achieving excellence is you.”

“Consider the difference between the first and third person in poetry [...] It's like the difference between looking at a person and looking through their eyes.”

“Forgiveness is not a single act, but a matter of constant practice.”

“Yes. It doesn't matter what happens; no matter where a child goes - how far or how long. Even if it's forever. You never lose them. You can't.”

“In war, government and their armies were a threat, but it was so often the neighbors who damned or saved you”