Diplomacy is about building bridges between different countries and cultures, promoting mutual understanding and cooperation.
Stories are how we make sense of the world, even when they don’t make sense.
Every dollar invested in responsible forestry today grows into a hundred dollars of environmental and economic value tomorrow.
The problem is, if you really believe in a society where those who merit to get to the top, get to the top, you'll also, by implication, and in a far more nasty way, believe in a society where those who deserve to get to the bottom also get to the bottom and stay there. I nother words, your position in life comes to seem not accidental, but merited and deserved. And that makes failure seem much more crushing.
To me, fearless is not the absence of fear. It's not being completely unafraid. To me, fearless is having fears. Fearless is having doubts. Lots of them. To me, fearless is living in spite of those things, every single day.
To write is to listen—to the voices within and the world outside.