One of the best investments we can make in a child’s life is high-quality early education.
Only the most saintly and delusional among us welcomes all pain as challenge, perceives all loss as harsh blessing.
Sometimes the road to wellness isnt a well-marked expressway.
Overcoming the difficulties of an ultramarathon reminds me that I can overcome the difficulties of life
But the longer and further I ran, the more I realized that what I was often chasing was a state of mind- a place where worries that seemed monumental melted away, where the beauty and timelessness of the universe, of the present moment, came into sharp focus.
As powerful as our legs are, as magnificent as our lungs and arms and muscles are, nothing matters more than the mind.
It's a hard, simple calculus: Run until you can't run anymore. Then run some more. Find a new source of energy and will. Then run even faster.
For people with mental illness, taking care of the body is not an automatic thing. The mind is in such chaos it's hard to come up with a plan. So to people like us, it's more important than ever to follow a regimen.
One of the great intellectual failures of the American intelligence community, and especially the counterterrorism community, is to assume if someone hasn't attacked us, it's because he can't or because we've defeated him.
I'd have to say I enjoy myself a lot more, really. I don't feel so much responsibility as I did in other teams. It felt sometimes at Ajax and Liverpool that it had to be me. Now, every time I go out on to the pitch, I enjoy myself and laugh. I have gone through too many difficult times in my career and I don't want to keep thinking about them.
Information is a beacon, a cudgel, an olive branch, a deterrent--all depending on who wields it and how.