Words are like people, I think. Put too many of them too close together and they cause trouble.

Those who have witnessed executions say there is no sound worse than the weeping of mother watching her son being put to death. They're wrong. There is one sound that is worse. There is silence.

Love...who needed love? As long as she had her books and her friends and an occasional hookup, she was perfectly content.

It seemed like forever ago, like we've had this brief but still infinite forever. Some infinities are bigger than other infinities.

The first - the most obvious test of a true social entrepreneur - is are they possessed, really possessed by an idea.

I've never done well when I've been appreciated. I've done best when I'm targeted for death.

If you're curious, you'll probably be a good journalist because we follow our curiosity like cats.

What the war did was give me the opportunity of three years of continuous reading, and it was in the course of reading that I became convinced that I should become an economist.

The only thing worse than being bored is being boring.

I know what I am able and not able to do. Fashion? OK. Fashion... clothes in theatre, in an opera, in a concert - all that I love. To make a movie myself... no!

Failure is an event, something that happens at a specific time on a certain day. If you want to be successful, you have to embrace failure and get back up every single time.

Come walk the path that leads to eternal happiness, joy, and everlasting life in the kingdom of our Heavenly Father.