"The past is a burden we carry with us, shaping our present and future in ways we cannot always understand."
The basis of shame is not some personal mistake of ours, but the ignominy, the humiliation we feel that we must be what others want us to be.
Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.
No president who performs his duties faithfully and conscientiously can have any leisure.