Every seed planted is a commitment to the future.
Three passions， simple but overwhelmingly strong， have governed my life: the longing for love， the search for knowledge， and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.
Conflict is the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. It instigates to invention. It shocks us out of sheeplike passivity, and sets us at noting and contriving.
The less you respond to negative people, the more peaceful your life becomes.
Writing is a way of bearing witness to the world.