SAINT AUGUSTINE

“You can recognize the people who live for others by the haunted look on the faces of the others.” I would so much rather that you wrote a book in order to entertain yourself than to help me."

We’ve all had that one idea that we think would make us successful.

It’s so valuable to us that we keep it locked in our minds until we find a way to make it real. What we don’t realize is that this is not true at all.

We give too much importance to the idea, when in ...

I knew he killed men every day; he came home wet with their blood, stains he scrubbed from his skin before dinner. But there were moments, like now, when that knowledge overwhelmed me.

He seemed to sit across the world from me, though he was so close I could feel the warmth rising from his ...