If we lose the forests, we lose our only teachers.
Life is made of ever so many partings welded together.
The most important thing in life is to stop saying 'I wish' and start saying 'I will. ' Consider nothing impossible, then treat possibilities as probabilities.
Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.
A man is lucky if he is the first love of a woman. A woman is lucky if she is the last love of a man.
The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.
Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encourages another person to be brave and true.
Religion exalts mystery as an unknowable secret that must be sealed in glass like the corpse of an enchanted princess and fearfully worshipped from afar. Initiation, on the other hand, requires direct participation and demands each of us to smash the casket and press mad lips to mystery, wooing her as a lover who will offer up her treasurers in a succession of sweet surrenders. This she will do, but only in exact ratio to our evolving ability and worthiness to receive them.
A lot of movies you do because they're fun, they make people forget about their day.
Donald Trump and I are going to make sure that law enforcement have the resources and the tools to be able to really restore law and order to the cities and communities in America.
After my election there was talk of a postracial America. And such a vision, however well intended, was never realistic.