Every invention creates new needs, but the biggest needs are not for new and more advanced versions of the last invention but for solutions to the social problems the last invention created.

Every apathetic individual is a brick in a tyrant's throne.

A coincidence is a trend we have decided not to take seriously.

Most of us would like to end our lives feeling both that we had a good time and that we left the world a little better than we found it.

Every time we buy something we deepen our emotional deprivation and hence our need to buy something.

People can bear anything.

We seek more and more privacy, and feel more and more alienated and lonely when we get it.

I inhale hope with every breath I take.

The Lord does not reject any one who comes to him.

I don't know much about death and the sorriest lesson I've learned is that words, my most trusted guardians against chaos, offer small comfort in the face of anyone's dying.

All that we do is done with an eye to something else.

Once I learned to swim, I learned that there were waves.

We have something special...a culture which we do not think of as something for the elite, but as something which is accessible to practically everybody.

There must be times when everybody writes when they feel they're evading writing.

I always get sort of an image of what the character is gonna look like and then I kind of go with it.

The wounded surgeon plies the steel That questions the distempered part; Beneath the bleeding hands we feel The sharp compassion of the healer's art Resolving the enigma of the fever chart.

God's Word is its own best argument.