He is a powerful and elegant writer, isn't he? Proof that when you have a brain, and a heart, and a love of words, you can combine those things as a force of beauty and good.

We have a lovely planet. But we also are part of that planet, and we have a duty to this old globe to become better, to be part of the beauty. We aren't, most of us, born monsters. We can, most of us, learn to listen to the better angels of our natures. When I see the bad we do, I, too, despair ... but I see so much good within us, that I want to fight for it.