Get down, ' Bunty says grimly. 'Mummy's thinking.' (Although what Mummy's actually doing is wondering what it would be like if her entire family was wiped out and she could start again.)

The past is what you take with you.

In the end, it is my belief, words are the only things that can construct a world that makes sense.

The past is a cupboard full of light and all you have to do is find the key that opens the door.

In success, knowledge - In failure, lessons.

There's only one growth strategy: work hard.

Play is often talked about as if it were a relief from serious learning. But for children play is serious learning. Play is really the work of childhood.

There is nothing that human imagination can figure brilliant and enviable that human genius and skill do not aspire to realize.

Sports figures are to the '70s what movie stars were to the '60s.

The Marine Corps taught me commitment, courage, focus, and a value system that can easily suffice for people like me who aren't religious.

It is done to you as you believe.

We shall heal our wounds, collect our dead and continue fighting.

There is no time in modern agriculture for a farmer to write a poem or compose a song

As an intelligence officer, if you don't have a security clearance, you really don't have a job. My military position was, and has been, frozen, for four years.