Syria is attracting a lot more Westerners than the Iraq War ever did because it's the perfect Sunni jihad.

The Japanese scored an important victory at Pearl Harbor, but the attack pulled the United States into World War II, and four years later, Japan was in ruins, utterly defeated.

We climbed the stairs to the third floor, where Osama bin Laden died early in the morning of May 2, 2011.

The dirty little secret of the intelligence world is that much of what you really need to know isn't exactly a secret anyway.

You’re just another story I can’t tell anymore.

one of the best and the most painful things about time traveling has been the opportunity to see my mother alive.

Vic knelt by Lucas's side. 'You look like crap, by the way.''Thanks for breaking it to me gently.' Lucas took a deep breath, then groaned.

I could have happily moved in and left my own cold, dark house behind, pretended as if this family were my own: loud and teasing and good-natured, instead of the fractured broken truth.

Love the moment. Flowers grow out of dark moments. Therefore, each moment is vital. It affects the whole. Life is a succession of such moments and to live each, is to succeed.

When someone brutally kills someone else, we call him "animalistic." But we consider ourselves "human" when we give to the poor.

What else remains for me? Youth, hope and love; To build a new life on a ruined life.

Stripe really did come about because we were really appalled by how hard it was to charge for things online.

No-one really thought of fission before its discovery.

Huge and mighty forms that do not live like living men, moved slowly through the mind by day and were trouble to my dreams.