We have created a world we don’t like, don’t understand and don’t trust, and we are too frightened to try to change it.

Facts, like living things, have a value in and of themselves and demand respect. Yet some people use them as means to an end, and dismiss them as soon as they are done using them.

True ideas seem to suffer from repetition, while stupid ones tend to flourish.

A thousand truths can be assembled in such a way as to create a colossal lie.

As time and space are bent by gravity, so too is truth bent by power.

You may never live long enough to discover who you are, but by the time you reach middle age you will hopefully realize who you are not.

Technology has not made humanity any wiser, it has only made us more dangerous.

Sometimes you come to realize you understand something but you can’t explain it to anyone, not even yourself. This is perhaps the most sacred kind of understanding.

There is no greater thing than to be oneself, and it is never too late to do so.

Where there is hope there is life.

Death is the night sky, the background against which the fleeting fireworks of life are displayed, an empty stage upon which the drama of life is played.

I'm not married, ” he said softly, “because I can't stomach the idea of marrying a woman inferior to me in mind and spirit. It would mean the death of my soul.

He was so glad he didn’t go through with his plan to end himself. What an idiot. Look at how much he would’ve missed if he’d followed through.

It is the curse of the powerful to be blind to their own faults.

I love reading about the sea. I love reading about it a lot more than actually being on the sea, when you think about it.

Since I write in first person and have no idea what goes on in men's heads.

I don't like stress because stress stresses me out.

I enjoyed seven years at Wimbledon and there were high and low points.

Your empathy for other mothers is such a natural instinct and it's such a beautiful thing that we all connect, and we should all help each other.

Our friends up north spend over five billion dollars on research and development and all they seem to do is copy Google and Apple.

When I find a golf course or a restaurant or a market that I like, that's pretty much exclusively where I go.