For all of life is Christmas, an eternal gift from God.

Though it might be nice to imagine there once was a time when man lived in harmony with nature, it's not clear that he ever really did.

History isn't written by the winners OR the losers

Solitude is the furnace in which transformation takes place.

There are two ways to increase your wealth. Increase your means or decrease your wants. The best is to do both at the same time.

When poverty shows itself, even mischievous boys understand what it means.

I divide my time between Columbia, Maryland, and Lagos, Nigeria.

There's nothing that allays an angry mind So soon as a sweet beauty.

It's not that we're trying to avoid death; we're trying to enjoy our lives fully, to wring every wonderful drop out of life that we possibly can.

You list the dead. You tell the stories of the past. You write about the catastrophes and the massacres. What about the living, Finnikin? Who honors them?

What happens in the heart simply happens.