Kingsley nodded. 'Of course. Sophia always did say wisdom had to be earned.

It was so nice just to live in the moment, to enjoy holding him so closely, to pretend for a little while that they were merely two young people in love and nothing else.

You cannot be with someone just because you don’t want to hurt him. You have your own happiness to think about.

Maybe weakness is a strength of a kind.

As long as she could remember who she was, she was okay. She wouldn't go crazy. At least not today.

A recipe for success. Think, do. Repeat as needed.

As the soft yield of water cleaves obstinate stone So to yield with life solves the insolvable: To yield I have learned is to come back again.

When I take my kids out for dinner or lunch, people smile at us.

I've never experienced- besides the birth of my two daughters-the feeling of winning a world championship in New York in the new stadium. It's something I'll never forget.

Americans are going to see that as the more religious a Muslim is, the more likely they're going to end up somehow fighting for ISIS' cause.

Stories are the things that allow us to persuade each other that we're human.

I'm one of those perverse people who likes being alone. I always took myself to be a community of one. That's what I am comfortable with.

If you are someone, you know, with fame, whatever amount, it's good to be married to someone who's not impressed with that at all.

Gold looks good on my skin, and gold looks good on black people, I think.