It is romantic, yes,’ agreed Hercule Poirot. ‘It is peaceful. The sun shines. The sea is blue. But you forget, Miss Brewster, there is evil everywhere under the sun’.

Together they listed the people they had known who had died on the mountains. A bleak conversation to have, thought Margrét, but there was some comfort in talking about death aloud, as though in naming...

Data may disappoint, but it never lies.

You can truly have it all, just not all at the same time.

In the Catskills, nostalgia runs backwards. The upwardly mobile Jewish masses of the 1950s and 1960s have been replaced by the Jews of 19th century Poland.

A bit of theory as we settle down for lunch: the waiter’s treatment of Kitty is actually a kind of sandwich, with the bottom bread being the bored and slightly effete way he normally acts...

Adversity is only yet another means to remind us of ‘How Truly Awsome We All Are’!

…just remember, darling, it is pain that changes our lives.

There is, after all, no pleasure like that given by a woman who really wants to see you.

He realized that he agonized over everything all the time, and he admitted that part of the problem in the Carter game had been his own lack of belief in his abilities. He knew the...

The joy of disruption comes from accepting that we all live in a temporal state.

The power of crowd sourcing always remains with the crowd, not the technological implementation.

Soil, blood, seed- Let me draw strength from you. let it be enough.

What is reason given me for, if I am not to use it to avoid bringing unhappy beings into the world!

Deep within every blind, absolute love grows a hatred toward the beloved, who now holds the only existing key to happiness

People don’t realize how much they are in the grip of ideas. We live among ideas much more than we live in nature.

If you believe something will make the world better, then it’s always worth a try, even if you fail.

Awakening of the mind is in waking up the kind feelings in the heart with an insight of the soul to distinctly identify and galvanize definitely the shade of darkness created by the colour of...

It is an uneasy lot at best, to be what we call highly taught and yet not to enjoy: to be present at this great spectacle of life and never to be liberated from a...

Pivoting is not the end of the disruption process, but the beginning of the next leg of your journey.

Disruption isn’t about what happens to you, it’s about how you respond to what happens to you.

There is something cathartic about what has happened to me during this stay in hospital. I’ve heard others say that coming face to face with your own mortality can have this effect. You look with...

Good writing is always about things that are important to you, things that are scary to you, things that eat you up.

I was, but then I realized that I was holding on to something that didn’t exist anymore. That the person I missed didn’t exist anymore. People change. The things we like and dislike change. And...

I care little for titles assigned to men, rather I care about the spirit of men.

What are the years from twenty to forty? Fettered and bound by personal and emotional relationships. That’s bound to be. That’s living. But later there’s a new stage. You can think, observe life, discover something...

An average idea enthusiastically embraced will go farther than a genius idea no one gets.

Plan for ways to get more enjoyment into your life and you will get more joy out of it.

For me, the times I always regret are missed opportunities to say farewell to good people, to wish them long life and say to them in all sincerity, “You build and do not destroy; you...

I’m not absolutely certain of my facts, but I rather fancy it’s Shakespeare — or, if not, it’s some equally brainy lad — who says that it’s always just when a chappie is feeling particularly...

There’s a fine line between career criminals and career professionals because most of us fall somewhere in between.

Fugit irreparabile tempus.

Later in life, I learnt that many things one may require have to be weighed against one’s dignity, which can be an insuperable barrier against advancement in almost any direction. However, in those days, choice...

I wanted a heaven. And I grew up striving for that world– an eternal world- that would wash away my temporary misery.

Our world’s future is far more malleable and controllable than most people realize.

The difference between successful and unsuccessful people is that successful ones know that the most unprofitable thing ever manufactured is an excuse.

Since every individual is accountable ultimately to the self, the formation of that self demands our utmost care and attention.

Rush-hour on the A rain. A blind man staggers forth, his cane tapping lightlyown the aisle. He leans against the door,raises a violin to chin, and says I’m sorry to bother you, folks. But please....

Lowell’s best friend was the heroically moustached art director of a tobacco magazine that published in the same building where Lowell worked at plumbing. His name was Harry Balmer, and despite the evidence of his...

the greatest Americanshave not been born yetthey are waiting patientlyfor the past to die

One must not permit oneself excesses, except with persons whom one wishes soon to leave.

You have to make mistakes to find out who you aren’t. You take the action, and the insight follows: You don’t think your way into becoming yourself.

We are God’s middle children, according to Tyler Durden, with no special place in history and no special attention.

Success doesn’t teach as many lessons as failure

Self-disruption is akin to undergoing major surgery, but you are the one holding the scalpel.

People lose sight of their dreams, only to hold tight their fears.

Because sometimes when someone is telling you something really important, it’s best to just let there be silence, to really think about what they’re saying. A lot of times people think they have to say...

Greed and corruption isn’t in the world.It’s in the people”.

Leave your excuses and live your dreams!

Because we have for millenia made moral, aesthetic, religious demands on the world, looked upon it with blind desire, passion or fear, and abandoned ourselves to the bad habits of illogical thinking, this world has...