... strong bonds are forged in high emotional temperatures.

On my tenth birthday a bicycle and an atlas coincided as presents and a few days later I decided to cycle to India.

hatred, however apparently justifiable, excusable or inevitable, always damages the hater.

Buying a bicycle is a momentous event, akin to marriage: you are acquiring a partner.

Sunnis consider Shias a pack of unwholesome fanatics and Shias consider Sunnis a gang of lukewarm no-goods - there's nothing like religion for spreading brotherly love!

one of the advantages of cycling is that it automatically prevents a journey from becoming an Expedition.

poverty denotes a lack of necessities and simplicity a lack of needs.

... I know a number of Western children who would benefit greatly if only someone were primitive enough to inhibit the development of their personalities.

The Irish have a flair for wringing from death the last drop of emotion and they do not quite understand those who react otherwise.

Is this something else our age does - on the one hand make communication easier than ever before, while on the other hand widening the gulf between those who are 'developed' and those who are not?

Undoubtedly the Afghans must be, by our standards, the best-looking people in the world. They have everything; height, proportions, carriage, features and complexion.

Some of us make it out. But the game is played with loaded dice. I wish I had known more, and I wished I had known it sooner.

Death defines life. I'd rather stay undefined.

I was taken by the power that savoring a simple cup of coffee can have to connect people and create community.

And If only I could, I'd make a deal with God.

Music, the word we use in our everyday language, is nothing less than the picture of our Beloved. It is because music is the picture of our Beloved that we love music.

Sure God's all powerful, but does he have lips?

Get back to work you slacker or you're fired.

You can't create a work without being aware that it will change dependent upon the context or the society where it is developed or consumed.

There is no greater evil one can suffer than to hate reasonable discourse.

FACT: Nothing in Obamacare forces people out of their health plans.