Einstein created an unstoppable "intellectual chain reaction, " an avalanche of pulsing, chattering neurons and memes that will ring for an eternity

Preservations are working to save neon signs for future generations, either on-site or in museums. After all, what would America be without a few giant doughnuts around.

As I write this entry, I touch a saber-tooth tiger skull in my office. Without stars there could be no skulls

Whether it is north or south, alcohol affects both health and wealth.

The criteria or the paradigm for us is not the West, not the Western paradigm, because the West has its own culture, we have our own culture, they have their own reality, we have our own reality.

I wasn't good at examinations, but I went to a very good secondary school - Bolton-on-Dearne - with wonderful teachers, who taught me drama and encouraged me in every way.

An enemy will train us in watchfulness; for if he be wary to seize on every error and trip us, we shall be more heedful to expose nothing, and this will drive us to prudence and thoughtfulness.

I sort of just wrote the songs, the way I wanted to write them, sing them the way I wanted to sing them, perform the way I wanted to perform.

The first great real intimacy between two people begins when secrets are told.

When a quiet introvert talks, heads turn, and that's power.

I write a syndicated column for The Washington Post that goes to about 200, 250 papers.

Be dramatically willing to focus on the customer at all costs, even at the cost of obsoleting your own stuff.

Children are dying." Lull nodded. "That's a succinct summary of humankind, I'd say. Who needs tomes and volumes of history? Children are dying. The injustices of the world hide in those three words.