Alas, criticism has always been what human beings, especially leaders, most hate to hear.

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.

If the human heart sometimes finds moments of pause as it ascends the slopes of affection, it rarely halts on the way down.

Grieving the loss of a loved one—whether human or animal—is not only permissible, it is essential.

Like people touch the feet of Jesus on the Pieta and hope for a blessing, I would touch the feet of the dancer and hope for grace.

In societies that profess some respect for law, suspects are apprehended and brought to fair trial. I stress 'suspects.'

I am what I am and that's all that I am and if I'm supposed to be somebody else, why do I look like me?

I had a lot of maturing I had to go through. I consider myself a smart individual in seeing that this is not the road I want to take.

Im Southern, so alligator tail is pretty interesting and yummy.

I've got my own targets... To establish myself in the team and once you are a regular for Liverpool then England, recognition comes from that and hopefully this will prove the case.

I promise you that one day you will stand aside and look at your difficult times, you will realize that he was always there beside you.

The old priest Peter Gilligan Was weary night and day; For half his flock were in their beds, Or under green sods lay.