Only as we mature does affection begin to depend on achievement.

The Arab-Israeli conflict is also in many ways a conflict about status: it's a war between two peoples who feel deeply humiliated by the other, who want the other to respect them. Battles over status can be even more intractable than those over land or water or oil.

Most good thinking has its origin in fear.

If one felt successful, there'd be so little incentive to be successful.

The mind does most of its best thinking when we aren't there. The answers are there in the morning.

We may seek a fortune for no greater reason than to secure the respect and attention of people who would otherwise look straight through us.

The dream of the news is that it makes us care about other people and situations. But we cannot identify with people to whom we haven't been introduced. Humans will only respond to art, to people who are skilled in making you care.