Book tours and research provide a lot of travel - too much, I sometimes think, but we do take vacations.
You are hurrying to the sweet place, To the nonsense chasing your spirit And in the nonsense you look for answers.
My feelings are too loud for words and too shy for the world.
If you are good, they say you are weak.
In every sound, the hidden silence sleeps.
Knighthood lies above eternity; it doesn’t live off fame, but rather deeds.
Life eats life to live.
I find nothing in fables more astonishing than my experience in every hour. One moment of a man's life is a fact so stupendous as to take the luster out of fiction.
Solving a problem for which you know there’s an answer is like climbing a mountain with a guide, along a trail someone else has laid. In mathematics, the truth is somewhere out there in a place no one knows, beyond all the beaten paths. And it’s not always at the top of the mountain. It might be in a crack on the smoothest cliff or somewhere deep in the valley.
One of the essential elements of government responsibility is to communicate effectively to the American people, especially in time of a potential terrorist attack or a natural disaster.
My kids are from different countries, but there's an understanding, you don't have to like a country just because you were born in it. You need to respect all countries. And be very open to each other's, of course.