Advocating well with a personal story is not a call to simply “Insert Story Here.

The power of your story may not lie in its drama, but in its absolutely perfect relationship to your cause.

A recent survey of Top Five Fears places public speaking alongside “identity theft” and “mass shootings.” In the 1980s, it completed with “nuclear destruction.” In the 1970s, “shark attack.

A writer will always be a writer. It's not a choice, it's a destiny.

How can those who possess all knowledge, which must include knowledge of life that is worth living, be interested in using knowledge only for the insignificant aim of making money?

Since reason is man’s basic means of survival, that which is proper to the life of a rational being is the good; that which negates, opposes or destroys it is the evil.

During the campaign for re-election, Barack Obama at least made vague references to a willingness to accept $3 trillion of reduced spending in exchange for a $1 trillion dollar tax increase.

In life we're most hell-bent on proving things that we're not really sure are true.

Anyone who takes it upon himself, on his private authority, to break a bad law, thereby authorizes everyone else to break the good ones.

I always knew what I was doing.

I'm writing a memoir. I'm four pages in. I start with my first memory, which is kicking my uncle in the balls. I was four.

Programming allows you to think about thinking, and while debugging you learn learning.

At the ballet, you really feel like you're in the presence of something outside the rest of your life. Higher than the rest of your life.