Hard work is great. It buys you more tickets to the luck lottery.

His reading suggested a man swimming in the sea among the wreckage of his ship, and trying to save his life by greedily clutching first at one spar and then at another.

Perspective gets lost in moral certainties. Which only means that no one was ever burned at the stake by a doubter.

There is nothing in the path of life that we don't already know before we start. Nothing important is learned

Hope is such a tenuous quality. To feel it and then to be denied what one most longs for ... Better, surely, not to hope at all, than to open the heart to a hope that is impossible.

I don't consider myself a politician or a hero. I'm a messenger. If Cambodia is to survive, she needs many voices.

I try to bear pain and not panic. I try to remember that it's got an expiration date, even if I don't know when that expiration date is. And I try to use it as fuel for my work.

She will love deeply--suffer terribly--she will have glorious moments to compensate.

People are experience-rich and theory-poor.

New start or not, there was a line to be drawn, and that line was singing musicals to yourself as serious psychological motivation.

I never had to worry about divestment because I never invested.