I know that you should always say yes to adventures or you'll lead a very dull life.

Sometimes miracles occur only when you jump in.

Scrabble - The game is available in Braille. That’s a nice fact. This makes me feel better about humanity for some reason. I can’t really explain why.

I grew up in a very secular home with no religion at all, so I was starting from zero.

After a while, if you're committed, you start to believe in the things in which you're praying. It's just cognitive dissonance. You can't live a completely religious life and not start to have it sink in.

It comes back to the old question: How can the Bible be so wise in some places and so barbaric in others? And why should we put any faith in a book that includes such brutality?

The World Health Organization ... estimated that 1.6 million years of healthy living are lost every year in Europe because of noise pollution.