I believe you can only be lucky if you start out being
very good

I always have believed that we should not call it an Arab-Israeli issue or a Palestinian-Arab dispute or a peace negotiation. I think we should call it what it is: an occupation of Palestine, full stop. This is not a popular position in mixed company.

Life is simply too short to live it less perfectly than it could be lived.

When you look up and don’t see the stars, the universe may have cleared the sky for you to replace them.

We are all born stars, but some refuse to shine and others make it their life’s mission to glow.

A warrior is defined by his scars, not his medals.