We were not told how Alexander the Great was the last person in history to successfully 'pacify' what would become Afghanistan, over 2, 000 years ago.

My family says they are proud of me. Of course, I would rather hear this than the contrary, but I cannot say that I am proud of myself, so I find that I cannot 'talk about it'.

...my ability to trust had been shattered into splinters, its fragmented shards slicing through every darkened recess of my mind, his absolution won my over all the more.

My mother describes me as 'a real hero . . . just like your grandfather'. But I do not know what to do with this accolade for her son, other than let her have moment, or it helps her back here.

Talent does not automatically generate success. You can be talentless, but so long as you have fortitude then you will have success.

A gift freely given, I did not ask to be in this state: living.

The secret of your future is hidden in your daily routine.

The Net is not a single home. Rather, it's an environment where thousands of small homes and communities can form and define and design themselves.

As great minds have the faculty of saying a great deal in a few words, so lesser minds have a talent of talking much, and saying nothing.

To become immortal, and then to die.

I didn't see any furry little James Bonds.

I grew up in an agnostic broad-minded family.

Other people do not see you at all, but guess at you by uncertain conjectures.

Inside I never said I wanted to do theatre or be an actor.