If you spend fifteen minutes in a shopping mall, you will pass more people than our ancestors saw during their entire lifetimes.

News is to the mind what sugar is to the body.

Out of the ­10,000 news stories you may have read in the last 12 months, did even one allow you to make a better decision about a serious matter in your life?

Assume that your worldview is not borne by the public. More than that: Do not assume that those who think differently are idiots. Before you distrust them, question your own assumptions.

It's okay to be envious - but only of the person you aspire to become.

Excel spreadsheets might as well be one of the most dangerous recent inventions.

Sometimes I think the loneliness inside of me is going to explode through my skin and sometimes im not sure if crying or screaming or laughing through the hysteria will solve anything at all

While the truth is putting on its shoes, the lie becomes a champion of a long-distance running.

The library is what keeps us a step ahead of the apes.

I learned by reading an awful lot and by writing a half a million words of stuff nobody would do anything with except wrap old fish.

The peace of God is first and foremost peace with God.

I have yet to encounter that common myth of weak men, an insurmountable barrier.

I don't like talking to people I KNOW, but strangers, I have no problem with.

Fathers and mothers,” she found herself saying, “leave their mark, no matter if we’ve known them a lifetime or only a day.

Privatization radically alters power relations in our society by weakening groups like public employees and public school teachers.

Today a woman must ignore her reflection in the eyes of her lover, since he might admire her, and seek it in the gaze of the God of Beauty, in whose perception she is never complete.