"I'm an amateur science enthusiast. I'm not even a professional enthusiast. I don't know anything I never even passed biology in high school. But I read the science section of the newspaper."

"But Saudi Arabia is surprising in a lot of ways. Like any place, or any people, it relentlessly defies easy categorization."

"Also, I need deadlines, just like everybody else, especially coming from magazines, newspapers, and stuff like that. I need daily or weekly deadlines to get stuff done, or I continue to do things and not go off on a year of unproductivity."

"And that's actually the brunt of what we do is, people going straight from their workplace, straight from home, straight into the classroom and working directly with the students. So then we're able to work with thousands and thousands more students."

"In the depths of adversity, the silence between the notes creates the music."

"The art of living is discovering that every choice we make paints the canvas of our life."

"Nature teaches us a valuable lesson: the silence between the notes creates the music."

"Art is the objectification of feeling."