Sacrifice is a part of life. It's supposed to be. It's not something to regret. It's something to aspire to.

We all yearn for what we have lost. But sometimes, we forget what we have.

We don't see what we could be. We should be looking at our potential, stretching ourselves into everything we can become.

Strangers are just family you have yet to come to know.

The years after graduation hardened me into someone quite different from the strutting graduate who left campus that day headed for New York city, ready to offer the world his talent. The world, I discovered. was not all that interested.

I lived," Dor said, "but I was not alive.

In a newspaper, you only have so much room. It teaches you the value of getting to the point, of not pampering yourself with your glorious writing. I've always been much more interested in one powerful sentence that stays with you. That's my style.