It is an undisputed truth of the modern age that there are now only two kinds of people in the world: people who call and people who text.

But sometimes there's a difference between being needed and being taken advantage of.

Life is full of screwups, " he said, chucking another paper at the split-level before taking the corner. "You're supposed to fail sometimes. It's a required part of the human existence.

Events are not a matter of chance.

Fame is a weird one. You need to distance yourself from it. People see a value in you that you don't see yourself.

Diseases can rarely be eliminated through early diagnosis or good treatment, but prevention can eliminate disease.

I'll be out having a good time and stick my gum on the side of my cup - I know, it's a horrible habit - and people will steal the cup.

There is a phase in the life of every copy editor when she is obsessed with hyphens.

Once upon a time, my mother lived in the posh downtown of Homs, Syria. She described my grandfather as a king in a storybook, atop a horse, wearing a didashah and pointing a long arm.

I was in love, and the feeling was even more wonderful than I ever imagined it could be.

Don't think about being the number one in the world, try instead to get through today's program as well as you can. Then we will see whether one day you'll end up as number one or number 100.

You have everything you need to build something far bigger than yourself.