Do you actually think that you are in control of this world, think again for G-d has control what he allows is for a reason.

Be careful that you do not forget your G-d.

The Altitude of Prayer doesn't matter but the Attitude

Making good decisions is a skill anyone can develop with effort.

In history, good intentions do not always make good consequences

Blessed be those souls who are glad! They are a salve for sorrow and fatigue. A sun in days of darkness, a joy in sorrow, a ray of heaven shining through the uncertainness of earth.

Once I thought that Lake Forest was the most glamorous place in the world. Maybe it was.

Having a first child is like swallowing an intoxicating drink made of equal parts joy and terror, chased with a bucketful of transitions nobody ever tells you about.

It was Queen Elizabeth who made me a foreign correspondent.

The idiot who praises, with enthusiastic tone, All centuries but this, and every country but his own.

Basic principles: no matter what, no matter when, no matter who... any man has a chance to sweep any woman off her feet. He just needs the right broom.

Every young person is going to be inspired to be a maker from now on. It's like how everyone used to want to be a musician, an actor, an athlete -- but a maker is what people are going to want to be.