Everybody has a dream, to make that dream a reality, one must work hard.

If you are writing any book about the end of the world, what you are really writing about is what's worth saving about it.

Gratitude is something of which none of us can give too much. For on the smiles, the thanks we give, our little gestures of appreciation, our neighbors build their philosophy of life.

The virtue of achievement is victory over oneself. Those who know this can never know defeat.

Behind every writer stands a very large bookshelf.

Some temptations cannot be fought. One must close one's mind and fly from them

My inventing time is all done under the influence of aerobic exercise. Basically, I do all my thinking while I run.

I grew up during the Cold War, when everything seemed very tenuous. For many years, right up until the fall of the Berlin Wall, I had vivid nightmares of nuclear apocalypse.

That is life... to begin again when everything is lost!

We cannot measure Divine Providence by the yardstick of human mentality.

Even if my country remains in war with yours. . .remember. . . i am not your enemy.

It is so difficult - at least, I find it difficult - to understand people who speak the truth.

My favorite song? 'Amazing Grace.' Anybody singing it. But the best it'll ever be done is by the Scottish National Pipe band and their National Orchestra. It'll bring tears to your eyes.

Some McDonald's restaurants are taking reservations on Valentine's Day. They are getting a lot of tables for one.

People little dream of how their affairs react on the body. There is a mental correspondence for every disease.

When life is unhappy it is hard to endure, when it is happy it is terrible to think of it ending. Both amount to the same thing in the end.

We are the children of our landscape; it dictates behavior and even thought in the measure to which we are responsive to it.

The Chinese government knows that what I am teaching is good and that I am teaching people to have high moral values.

the Irish ... are full of the fear of the Lord and the joy of living, and they don't know how to combine the two, but they'll sure have a good time trying.

Time travel is only a little less confusing than wives.

In its early stages, insomnia is almost an oasis in which those who have to think or suffer darkly take refuge.