Only absences were fully shared.

Fear is intense self-awareness.

Money was spiritual indemnity against some unspecifiable future loss. It existed in purest form in his mind, my money, a reinforcing source of meditation.

Do what YOU want to do because if you don’t, you are nothing but your own slave.-RVM

Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There's nothing to do but to stand there and take it.

Companies have never won. You're always either fighting for survival, or fighting for relevance.

Writing is this act of faith - a bit like driving in the fog: you can hardly see just in front of you. But you trust God's leading you and you just write into the space you can see ahead of you.

I start at the beginning, mentally screaming every obscenity I can in alphabetical order. Then I start setting them to the tune of "Row, Row, Row Your Boat

I think deconfliction with the Russians is probably the maximum that we can do. But deconfliction is enough to prevent us killing Russian soldiers when we are attacking the Assad regime.

I turned to the Times crossword puzzle and asked Kate, “What’s the definition of a moderate Arab?” “I don’t know.” “A guy who ran out of ammunition.

I must create a system or be enslaved by another mans; I will not reason and compare: my business is to create.

Women are part of peace keeping troops in countries like Liberia.