I got into online trading. It was alarmingly easy to do. I went through the whole cycle of emotions, from supreme self-confidence to total impotence. I broke even in the end.

There is something uncannily adaptive about anti-Semitism: the way it can hide, unsuspected, in the most progressive minds.

There is only one power greater than fear, and that is faith. Use your faith to move the mountains that are standing in your way today!

Watson represents merely a step in the development of smart machines. Its answering prowess, so formidable on a winter afternoon in 2011, will no doubt seem quaint in a surprisingly short time.

Children play from the library of their imagination and it feels real to them.

One of the things I've learned about vision is people will grab it mentally or, have a crab mentality.

If you improve a teacher's self-esteem, confidence, communication skills or stress levels, you improve that teacher's overall effectiveness across the curriculum.

Deep within each of us is a longing for home. We yearn for a place of comfort where we can be ourselves, where we can realize our dreams.

What kind of victory is it when someone is left defeated?

I spent a lot of time trying to layer upon layer upon layer as I wrote. I think that's often the fear of a writer, that little nuances won't get picked up.

Doctors and lawyers must go to school for years and years, often with little sleep and with great sacrifice to their first wives.

I was an A student and I liked creative writing.