“Stories can encourage us and embolden us to face ourselves and to feel. Stories can make us feel less alone. If we're reading a st...”

“I could feel my moral compass as a soldier, in danger of - I could feel the squeeze, the pressure of frustration and anger and fea...”

“Poetry is not an issue of form and enjambments. Poetry, as the word is classically used, has to do with sound and sense. It can be...”

“The wars don't end when you sign peace treaties or when the years go by. They will echo on until I'm gone and all the widows and o...”

“I learned that moral courage is harder than physical courage.”

“I know what it is to feel unloved, to want revenge, to make mistakes, to suffer disappointment, yet also to find the courage to go...”

“Just as we have the power to harm the ocean, we have the power to put in place policies and modify our own behavior in ways that w...”

“For 50 years, nuclear power stations have produced three products which only a lunatic could want: bomb-explosive plutonium, letha...”

“Therefore I am sure that this, my Coronation, is not the symbol of a power and a splendor that are gone but a declaration of our h...”

“My father was an Episcopalian minister, and I've always been comforted by the power of prayer.”

“Freedom under law is hard work. If rulers cannot be trusted with arbitrary power, it is up to citizens to raise their voices at in...”

“None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free.”