I am who I am because the tears of my past have watered the magnificence of my present.

It is the manner of death that reveals the importance of a man. Ordinary people are murdered while extraordinary people are assassinated.

[About describing atomic models in the language of classical physics:]We must be clear that when it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry. The poet, too, is not nearly so concerned with describing facts as with creating images and establi

There is a very dangerous myth that #Hitler was solely fueled by racism. His desire to engineer society was pervasive. Racism alone cannot explain what happened in The Holocaust without also addressing Hitler's statist policies.

Win over the fear and adversity and prove yourself wrong.

We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run over.

My sudden, unforeseen capitulation had knocked me backward, and I had nothing to hold on to. My internal weather was eerily calm, as if in a tornado's aftermath, birdsong, sunshine, supersaturated colors, wreckage all around, and myself, dazed and limping

May God protect me from gloomy saints.

Yea, slimy things did crawl with legsUpon the slimy sea.

I'm thinking about the cat dying, Dulcie and her knife against my throat, Mrs Irvin and her St Thomas bone... But never my sister. A brother rarely thinks about his sister.

We Facebook users have been building a treasure lode of big data that government and corporate researchers have been mining to predict and influence what we buy and for whom we vote. We have been handing over to them vast quantities of information about o

Your qualifications, your CV, are not your life, though you will meet many people of my age and older who confuse the two.