"The writer's duty is to disturb the peace, to unsettle the comfortable, and to comfort the unsettled."

Success is not about how much money you make, it's about the difference you make in people's lives.

The end of history will be a very sad time. The struggle for recognition, the willingness to risk one's life for a purely abstract goal, the worldwide ideological struggle that called forth daring, courage, imagination, and idealism, will be replaced by economic calculation, the endless solving of technical problems, environmental concerns, and the satisfaction of sophisticated consumer demands.

"Understanding the past is essential to shaping the future."

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.