As soon as we conform anything to language, we’ve changed it. Use a word and you’ve altered the world. The poets know this. It’s what they try so hard to avoid.

If a man's character is to be abused there's nobody like a relative to do the business.

If you can't protect yourself with talk, you won't be alive to protect yourself with guns.

We have to assess: Are we making disciples along the way as we draw people to our churches?

To me, pain means you're pushing your body to give you everything its got.

Most of the good programmers do programming not because they expect to get paid or get adulation by the public, but because it is fun to program.

I've seen enough successful writers who no longer seem to care when they are recognized with an award, and I think that's just tragic.

I hope to take advantage of the Netflix organism and see if there are ways to get in new material and see if there are ways to do deleted scenes.

If you don't invest in basic research at some stage you start losing the basis of applied research.

A certain excess of animal spirits with thoughtless good-humor will often make more enemies than the most deliberate spite and ill-nature, which is on its guard, and strikes with caution and safety.

It may be that ... when the advance of destructive weapons enables everyone to kill everybody else nobody will want to kill anyone at all. [Referring to the hydrogen bomb.]