Embarrassingly for Obama, it appeared that his administration had jumped the gun on banning the bullets.

If free will means to do what you want, then it does not exist. Many of its staunchest proponents have met the wheel of fate without opposing it

One mustn't ask apple trees for oranges, France for sun, women for love, life for happiness.

It is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all.

The staggering babies embody the deepest truth about deep practice: to get good, it's helpful to be willing, or even enthusiastic, about being bad. Baby steps are the royal road to skill.

When a man has no strength, if he leans on God, he becomes powerful.

I always knew I had to work hard.

People, like dogs, love repetition. Chasing a ball, lapping a course in a race car, sliding down a slide. Because as much as each incident is similar, so it is different.

Many a treasure besides Ali Baba's is unlocked with a verbal key.

If you see a bandwagon, it's too late.

The artist must imitate that which is within the thing, that which is active through form and figure, and discourses to us by symbols.