Everyone should read, we say, but we act as if only those with special talent should write.

For how long will insult hurt a person? For as long as he covets self-importance. For as long as one covets temporary [non eternal] things

Maddie: Now it’s just me against the world, and it’s the loneliest feeling ever.

Sophie had survived on her own for a long time. She knew she didn't need a man, not even Darius. But she wanted him. That made all the difference in the end.

Xenophobia is dangerous, but patriotism is a good thing.

Let them hate me, so long as they fear me.

It's clear that agriculture, done right, is the best means the world has today to simultaneously tackle food security, poverty and environmental degradation.

We are tempted to live under the illusion that somewhere out there are people who are normal.

The pressure to conform to an authority figure or peer group can cause people to behave in shocking ways.

Well, David Eckstein, like most of us, has 20 digits. Ten fingers. Ten toes.

So I was smacked up on the Prime Minister's jet – big deal.