When people have peace, they hate it and long for excitement, and when they have excitement, they want peace.

Every single pleasure I can imagine or have experienced is more delightful, more of a pleasure, if you take it in small sips, if you take your time. Reading is not an exception.

Fundamentalist s live life with an exclamation point. I prefer to live my life with a question mark.

Writing a poem is like having an affair, a one-night stand; a short story is a romance, a relationship; a novel is a marriage-one has to be cunning, devise compromises, and make sacrifices.

Words create conceptions and self-conceptions and ultimately nations. They can start and stop wars. They can would and heal. Choosing words carefully is a moral responsibility.

A conflict begins and ends in the hearts and minds of people, not in the hilltops.

All of my novels are democracies.

The only way to keep a dream, any dream at all, to keep a dream perfect and rosy and intact and unsullied is never to live it out.

The opposite of compromise is not integrity. The opposite of compromise is not idealism. The opposite of compromise is fanaticism and death.

I wrote The Same Sea not as a political allegory about Israelis and Palestinians. I wrote it about something much more gutsy and immediate. I wrote it as a piece of chamber music.

Now, Israel is a fulfillment, and as a fulfillment, it is flawed. The fact that it is flawed is not so much a testimony about the failures of Israel. No, it is a testimony about the nature of dreams.

Rethink Your Success Mindset: With the right mindset, everything that you experience, along your journey towards success, is a blessing.

I would not think that philosophy and reason themselves will be man's guide in the foreseeable future; however, they will remain the most beautiful sanctuary they have always been for the select few.

This generation must get deadly serious about the problem of Biblical illiteracy.

The common right is nothing more or less than the protection of all, pouring its rays on each. This protection of each by all, is Fraternity.

It does people good to have to do things they don't like in moderation.

I'm not going to die slipping on no ice.

If you don't live in the world of choosing, you live in the world of excusing.

There are some areas where the Kochs are on the same page with [Donald] Trump. He doesn't believe in global warming. He says it's a hoax .

Satyagraha is itself an unmistakable mute prayer of an agonized soul.

But who is innocent? By grace divine, Not otherwise,O Nature! we are thine.