Quotes about Connection

She realized that she had always felt a sense of light-hearted relaxation in his presence and known that he shared it. He was the only man she knew to whom she could speak without strain or effort. This, she thought, was a mind she respected, an adversary worth matching.

We have met once," she said, "at the Holcombes. If Mr. Roark remembers.

Whatever it was that others sought in life, their right to what they now felt was all the two of them wished to find.

She felt that his presence seemed more intensely real when she kept her eyes away from him, almost as if the stressed awareness of herself came from him, like the sunlight from the water.

There is only one path to heaven. On Earth we call it Love.

It's only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.

What matters is how well we have loved.

In return, I gave him a sounding board for his frustrations.

The biggest deficit that we have in our society and in the world right now is an empathy deficit. We are in great need of people being able to stand in somebody else's shoes and see the world through their eyes.

The idea that our common humanity mattered more than our differences was stitched into my DNA.

Duty compels us to care about people that we will never meet.

The name's Obama. Where do I belong?