I make personal appearances around the country. I'm starting a book tour now, and I may be coming to Toronto with the Learning Annex, which I'm doing all through the United States, so that may come up just before Christmas.

If we could see ourselves as others see us, we would vanish on the spot.

E. M. Cioran

But then I sigh; and, with a piece of Scripture, Tell them that God bids us do good for evil: And thus I clothe my naked villany With odd old ends stol'n forth of holy writ; And seem a saint when most I play the devil

William Shakespeare

In theory there is a possibility of perfect happiness: To believe in the indestructible element within one, and not to strive towards it.

Franz Kafka

Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And that no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dreams, because every second of the search is a second's encounter with God and with eternity.

Paulo Coelho

There is hunger for ordinary bread, and there is hunger for love, for kindness, for thoughtfulness; and this is the great poverty that makes people suffer so much.

Mother Theresa

Seek goodness and be goodness. Seek beauty and be beauty. Seek love and be love.

Bryant McGill

Men did not love Rome because she was great. She was great because they had loved her.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Hasten slowly.

Caesar Augustus

My mom, God rest her soul - she liked nicknames. In the womb she named me Skip. There was another black guy in Piedmont, W.Va., and his name was Skip. They called him Big Skip, and I was Little Skip.

Henry Louis Gates

History is malleable. A new cache of diaries can shed new light, and archeological evidence can challenge our popular assumptions.

Ken Burns

Every blunder behind us is giving a cheer for us, and only for those who were willing to fail are the dangers and splendors of life.

Carl Sandburg

Dengan petualangan kecil itu dia jadi bisa belajar banyak tentang hakikat hidup.

Gola Gong