I apologize in advance for not saying ‘here’s to a good luck,’ because I do not believe in luck. And if good luck does exist, I don’t need it anymore.

Life has taught me not to shoot messengers, no matter how bad and discouraging the news.

Life has taught me not to shoot messengers, no matter how bad and discouraging the news. It is more important to pay attention to those crafting the message!

If it matters, let me whisper a secret in your ears: I have always felt that I was in the wrong place and the wrong time. I am forever out of time and out of place.

Real wisdom lies not in just paying attention to what is being said, but in what is omitted from speeches.

Many treat friendships and other human connections as if they are things they can store in a closet where they can come back one day and find them unaltered. Alas, human connections do not survive with this mentality.

[M]any people say things like ‘investing in a love relationship’ as if they are talking about investing in stock market or in financial projects. That is a customer not a human or a citizen language. This type of language is filled with clues about how we have internalized ourselves as customers.

A long time ago, I learned to only share my war stories (I have many) with people with whom I feel a genuine and deep human connection. These stories are at once precious and painful – they need to be earned. They must be deserved by those who hear them.

Hearing about any single human life lost anywhere in the world should never ever become old news.