Every birth comes out of labour pains. The most difficult task is not about being pregnant with visions

If no one knows when a person is going to die, how can we say he died prematurely?

Now that this destiny was about to happen, every instinct within him fought against it, realizing he had been fetishizing suicide.

She says what holds their marriage together is that she feels too damn sorry for him to ask for a divorce.

I'm fascinated by the idea that genetics is digital. A gene is a long sequence of coded letters, like computer information. Modern biology is becoming very much a branch of information technology.

Real leaders ask hard questions and knock people out of their comfort zones and then manage the resulting distress.

People have motives and thoughts of which they are unaware.

Scars are reminders of the obstacles we've overcome. Wear them proudly.

It's amazing what a spray-on tan will do.

The commonest man, who has his ounce of sense and feeling, is conscious of the difference between a lovely, delicate woman and a coarse one. Even a dog feels a difference in her presence.

Did you ever feel that you were missing someone you had never met?