Failure is only permanent where resiliency fails to exist.

For me, I think it was a little easier to write thinking that nobody was listening.

Cakes are like books: There are new ones you want to read and old favorites you want to reread.

Gratitude is the vitamin of the soul.

He read while he walked. He read while he ate. The other librarians suspected he somehow read while he slept, or perhaps didn't sleep at all.

I play harder when my family is watching.

I wish we could go back to the time when the private lives of our public figures were relevant only if they directly affected their public responsibilities.

Stop invading Muslims lands! How can you expect Muslims to love you when you are forcefully occupying their lands and murdering their people?

A crowd is not merely impulsive and mobile. Like a savage, it is not prepared to admit that anything can come between its desire and the realisation of its desire.

Walk away from your own preoccupations . . . and see the perishing multitudes.

According to the official version of history, CIA aid to the Mujahadeen began during 1980, that is to say, after the Soviet army invaded Afghanistan, 24 Dec 1979.