They say, Find a purpose in your life and live it. But, sometimes, it is only after you have lived that you recognize your life had a purpose, and likely one you never had in mind.

I'm sorry," Laila says, marveling at how every Afghan story is marked by death and loss and unimaginable grief. And yet, she sees, people find a way to survive, to go on.

you say you have no courage, but i see it in you. what you did, the burden you agreed to shoulder, took courage. for that, i honor you.

I think that to fully appreciate baseball, it helps to have been born in the U.S.

The Chinese say it's better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one.

If America taught me anything, it's that quitting is right up there with pissing in the Girl Scouts' lemonade jar.

He had the blue kite in his hands; that was the first thing I saw. And I can't lie now and say my eyes didn't scan it for any rips.