The proper function of a government is to make it easy for the people to do good, and difficult for them to do evil.

The comedy in our lives was those first few weeks we lived together in Paris: Our bodies desired one another, our souls opened for one another. We experienced all of the happiness and anguish of first love. Those first few weeks in Paris, we barely touched lips; yet the few times we did, it had the force of a collision of stars.

Find a new and better leader within yourself, for yourself.

Accept that you are not finished, and a new and better life is just beginning.

I felt that first awareness that there__ a whole set of species whose sounds and calls you__e never heard__he wonder of realizing that people are growing up with an entirely different sensory experience from yours. This whole country seemed so shiny to me.

And what I learned is this: there are places in the world war one feels new, young, and alive again.