In the end, the sum of my vices is all me.

Our spirit is mightier than the filth of our memories.

Do you love me?’ he asked instead. ‘Because if you don’t, I’d wait until you did. I’d wait weeks and months and years.

Do you want to know something about tyrants? When faced with death, they weep and they beg just like the rest of us.

Phaedra of Alonso’s death was a never-ending pain that gnawed at his insides. It made him a prisoner in his own cottage.

In the games of queens and kings, we leave our dreams at the door and we make do with what we have. Sometimes if we’re fortunate, we still manage to have a good life.

Because today, I think I'm leaning on the side of wonder.

Phaedra looked across the water and her eyes met Lucian’s. Their needs came second. It came from the privilege of being tr

Lucian's father had warned him to fear idle men. Without the pride gained from a good day's work, they were left to their vices and the doubts that crowded their head. Their hatred. Their envy.

I determine my own worth. If I had to rely on others, I'd have lain down and died waiting.

I've wept enough in my life. I have no tears left.

Stop looking for a partner. Focus on your goals and rebuilding your life. The right person will eventually find their way to you.

One of the great failings of the American education system (in our view) is that young people can graduate from university without any understanding of poverty at home or abroad.

But here, two thousand miles from home, there was a real shipwreck, a real hope. A choice big enough to change our lives forever.

Managers in all too many American companies do not achieve the desired results because nobody makes them do it.

The white man in the tropics degenerates every day.

As a species, we create tools to control our environment. What excites my imagination is wilderness: our materials' ability to escape our control.

The problem with popular thinking is that it doesn’t require you to think at all.

Men and women would be even more unhappy if they really understood one another.

How will you go about finding that thing the nature of which is totally unknown to you?

If you understood a business perfectly and the future of the business, you need very little in the way of a margin of safety.