Most human beings come into the world and leave it with nothing to show they ever lived.

Life is a compromise of what your ego wants to do, what experience tells you to do, and what your nerves let you do.

We should have imposed new sanctions in 2013 and maintained the strength of our negotiating position, which is what brought Iran to the table in the first place.

A career in journalism suddenly lost its appeal.

I love chess, but it's the height of decadence.

I sat up in bed. My T-shirt was soaking wet. My pillow was wet. My hair was wet. And my room was sticky and humid.

Society forces you to conform.

I love my job, and I'm a lucky girl. I thoroughly enjoy going to work.

It's unwise to presume on the future... It makes good sense to plan for tomorrow today, but there's a problem with thinking we can always do later the good we can do now.

We live in a world of thought, but we think we live in a world of external experience.

Although religion was around me my whole life I never felt it was forced upon me. It is my centring, my grounding, the soul of me. I feel I'm nothing without it.