He'd imagined peacetime would bring him a sense of belonging. During the war it kept him going, that thought of peace. He'd believed in it like a season he knew it would arrive one day

Memories shrink. Like a soap bar used over and over, they become deformed, weaker scented, too slight and slippery to hold.

Life is life. You choose to live it or you do not.

it is not what happens to you, it is what happens in you.

Get in the habit of relentlessly putting in your best before you ask God to finish the rest for you.

In reality, serial killers are of average intelligence.

I am traveling less in order to be able to write more. I select my travel destinations according to their degree of usefulness to my work.

If we need simple narratives so people can amplify and spread them, are we forced to engage only with the simplest of problems?

The vast majority of the students I have taught have become self-sufficient and confident individuals who enjoy their lives.

Today's date, the eighteenth of May, should sometime become an occasion of great international celebration, for on this day ten years ago the first Peace Conference opened at The Hague.

I just wanted to act. I didn't want to do anything else.

Silicon Valley is a mindset, not a location.