Never assume that people in positions of responsibility are behaving responsibly.

Climb the mountain not to plant your flag, but to embrace the challenge, enjoy the air and behold the view. Climb it so you can see the world, not so the world can see you.

To me history ought to be a source of pleasure. It isn't just part of our civic responsibility. To me it's an enlargement of the experience of being alive, just the way literature or art or music is.

Climb the mountain so you can see the world, not so the world can see you.

Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.

And read… read all the time… read as a matter of principle, as a matter of self-respect. Read as a nourishing staple of life.

History is a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who we are and why we are the way we are.

Books can change your life. Some of the most influential people in our lives are characters we meet in books.

My wife, the star I steer by.

Courage is contagious. If a leader shows courage, others get the idea.

I'm drawn particularly to stories that evolve out of the character of the protagonist.

Moving on sometimes is the best way to take all the bricks that life throws at you, and building a castle to chillax

If your life were a book, and you were the author, how would you want your story to go?

At the midpoint on the journey of life, I found myself in a dark forest, for the clear path was lost.

What we find is that our brains have colossal things happening in them all the time.

You can go to the gym, lift as many weights as you want, but if you can't bench press your duvet at fajr then it doesn't mean anything

I assure you; while I look like a ghost, I'm no spirit or demon. I'm nothing but a girl struggling to make her way in an intolerant world. I bleed, I love, and someday, I'll die.

The license said you had to stick around until I was dead, but if you're tired of looking at my face I guess I already am.

Freedom means the power to act by soul guidance, not by the compulsions of desires and habits. Obeying the ego leads to bondage; obeying the soul brings liberation.

Green exercise improves psychological health.

I really believe that God and religion is two different things.