Columbia University, where I went to study in 1993, insisted its undergraduates learn a foreign language, so I discovered French.
“I think there's a part in each one of us that wants the impossible to happen, and that's what surprises are.”
“While I do not suggest that humanity will ever be able to dispense with its martyrs, I cannot avoid the suspicion that with a little more thought and a little less belief their number may be substantially reduced.”