Just breathe, " my mom would say, "Ten tiny breaths... Seize them. Feel them. Love them.

What’s wrong is that every morning and every night, I lie in bed wondering why you’re not beside me.

Society is better off with me in a gym.

Must have been some kind a nightmare.”“Yeah, ” I answer, my usual calm, vacant voice returning. “Can’t wait to wake up.

No human can bury their past indefinitely. It’s only a matter of time before you crack.

He leans in closer and closer until his breath caresses my mouth. I’m paralyzed. I swear he’s going to kiss me. I swear I’m going to let him.

There’s no getting better, Storm. This is it.” There’s no coming back from the dead.

I barrel into his arms, my mouth connecting with his. Seizing him. Feeling him. Loving him.

I could lay here and stare at him forever. I don’t want to let go. Ever.

You have to be afraid of failure. You have to be terrified

Few individuals significantly alter the course of history. Fewer still modify the map of the world. Hardly anyone can be credited with creating a nation-state. Mohammad Ali Jinnah did all three.

Religions are so subtle, so complicated, so intelligent in many ways that they're not fit to be abandoned to the religious alone; they're for all of us.

The world of spying is my genre. My struggle is to demystify, to de-romanticise the spook world, but at the same time harness it as a good story.

It's not what you teach, it's what you emphasize.

I'm African American / I'm African / I'm black as the moon.

Impromptu thoughts are mental wild-flowers.

I was equally in love with singing and acting from an early age.

You can't do a good business with a bad person. Find the right people to work with and you can't go wrong.

Every act of every man is a moral act, to be tested by moral, and not by economic criteria.