A young man who doesn't have the foresight to seek out the girl he wants to be with and actively pursue her, doesn't deserve her.

Tarzan-like men are my weakness, apparently.

He kissed me fiercely, with an utter abandon that I could no more put a halt to than I could stop an avalanche.

A mind with questions is a mind open to understanding.

Achievements take leaders' name everywhere. Character keeps those names wherever they reach. A leader with no trust soon fades no matter how far he goes.

There is only one answer to destruc-tiveness and that is creativity.

No human race is superior no religious faith is inferior. All collective judgments are wrong. Only racists make them.

Every musician I have ever heard has influenced me. I often find I emulate micro-aspects of an artist, and combine it to form something new and unique.

Imagination is intervention, an act of defiance. It alters belief.

A lot of men think that if they smile for a second, somebody will take advantage of them, and they are right.

Energy markets can be thought of as suffering from appendicitis due to fossil fuel subsidies. They need to be removed for a healthy energy economy.

And if the soul Is to know itself It is into a soul That it must look: The stranger and the enemy, we've seen him in the mirror.

He wanted to know what assurance we could give the American people that we aren't getting the tar licked out of us by the North Korean army. It has never happened to us. It won't happen this time.

I write because the act of writing itself is what drives me. It's a private communication within myself - nothing more or less. This doesn't mean I do not want to share with people.