A day without someone to hold you or a day without someone to share, is a day easily forgotten.’ - Vera Richardson in Mr Alhourani's Dead Man's Spots

If you want the extra-ordinary, you've got to be willing to forsake the ordinary' - Annie Grimes in Mr Alhourani's Dead Man's Spots

You can’t lead people if you aren’t going to focus on what’s relevant to you and them. Don’t worry about who is and who is not watching you. Consider what you have to watch.

When you live by the demands and supply of life, it becomes a pleasurable adventure.

Love potions? For Will Herondale? T’aint my way to turn down payment, but any man who looks like you has got no need of love potions, and that’s a fact.

Religion makes intelligent people say and do wacky things, believe and affirm crazy things.

Denying rumors gave them more power.

Fear, he said, ran all of our lives. Fear, he said, after religion, was the most destructive force in the world.

The central idea in The Black Swan is that: rare events cannot be estimated from empirical observation since they are rare.

Sometimes I imagine a get-together where I introduce my family to my blogger friends and my blogger friends introduce my family to me.

Salvation by the cross. [Lat., In cruce salus.]

I never worked less than 16-hour days on South Beach.