Editing might be a bloody trade. But knives aren't the exclusive property of butchers. Surgeons use them too.

A hope of something beyond our place and time. This is what books - the best books - give us: a lifeline, a reason to believe, a way to breathe more freely.

The selective memory isn't selective enough.

I have all the patient to wait for what I want.

Our country! In her intercourse with foreign nations may she always be in the right but our country right or wrong.

Study strategy over the years and achieve the spirit of the warrior. Today is victory over yourself of yesterday tomorrow is your victory over lesser men.

Mariah and Whitney Houston were my goddesses growing up.

Most of my problems have no answer or else the answer is worse than the problem.

The mere fact of knowing that a great audience waits on your labor is enough to shake all your nerves to pieces.

I voluntarily inflicted a certain level of insanity on myself.

The secret of getting ahead is getting started

I think Enlightenment as an epistemic ideal involves rejecting the appeal to a fundamental stratum of non-conceptual self-evidence.

There are times when you run a marathon and you wonder, Why am I doing this? But you take a drink of water, and around the next bend, you get your wind back, remember the finish line, and keep going.