A large user base helps shield us from things we can't control. You can spend years catering to a major corporation, for example, only to see your contact there move on.

Over the last 20 years, I've worked on or invested in many companies that scaled to 100 million users or more. But here's the thing: You don't start with 100 million users. You start with a few. So, stop thinking big, and start thinking small.

Our priority is to go after ISIL. And so what we have said is that we are not engaging in a military action against the Syrian regime. We are going after ISIL facilities and personnel who are using Syria as a safe haven, in service of our strategy in Iraq.

As 'Possession' progresses, it seems less and less like the usual satire about academia and more like something by Jorge Luis Borges.

The other men came in and somehow Lou got the same order across to them. We all went to comply—like so many dumb sheep.

She prayed. Not merely for wisdom, but for submission. Would she ever be ready—and willing—to let God work out the details of her future?

If circumstances change, your decisions can change. Decisions are temporary.

Always I'm feeling, 'You're never going to work again.' That's going to happen one day, but I hope I'm not alive.

It's just as difficult to reach a destination you don't have, as it is to come back from a place you've never been.

Whatever plan one makes, there is a hidden difficulty somewhere.

For the Christian, there are, strictly speaking, no chances. A secret Master of the Ceremonies has been at work.

God told me to smite Osama bin Laden, so I invaded Afghanistan. Then He told me to smite Saddam Hussein, so I invaded Iraq. Now He wants me to work on the Middle East problem.