A neurosis defends itself by coming up with rationalizations to explain away bizarre behavior.

You don't have conversations with microprocessors. You tell them what to do, then helplessly watch the disaster when they take you literally!

When it comes to privacy and accountability, people always demand the former for themselves and the latter for everyone else.

It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power.

The village is coming back, like it or not.

In all of history, we have found just one cure for error—a partial antidote against making and repeating grand, foolish mistakes, a remedy against self-deception. That antidote is criticism.

Why must conversions always come so late? Why do people always apologize to corpses?

If you believe you can make a living as a writer, you already have enough ego.

The worst mistake of first contact, made throughout history by individuals on both sides of every new encounter, has been the unfortunate habit of making assumptions. It often proved fatal.

My first duty to write a gripping yarn. Second is to convey credible characters who make you feel what they feel. Only third comes the idea.

But honestly, if you do a rigorous survey of my work, I'll bet you'll find that biology is a theme far more often than physical science.

Never be an insincere friend, never be manipulative, one day you will be discovered and lose everything

Where God's grace takes you, grace will increase your capability and your capacity. Grace will empower you.

I have experienced failure as a politician and for that very reason, I am ready to give everything for Japan.

What this country needs what every country needs occasionally is a good hard bloody war to revive the vice of patriotism on which its existence as a nation depends.

We all have a weakness for beauty.

A salamander can grow a new tail in three weeks. My dad can score new tail in three minutes.

Well you found us strength and solutions but I liked the tension And not always knowing the answers when you're gonna lose it, you're gonna lose it.

Everybody on a championship team doesn't get publicity, but everyone can say he's a champion.

We are all alike, on the inside.

I love to write honest songs that name real people, then get up onstage and live out those emotions in front of 15,000 people.