Godlessness invariably produces vulgarity. Civilization is the product of belief.

We often take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude.

What we remember from childhood we remember forever - permanent ghosts, stamped, inked, imprinted, eternally seen.

After a certain number of years, our faces become our biographies.

To want to be what one can be is purpose in life.

If we had to say what writing is, we would have to define it essentially as an act of courage.

Is there a word more passionate than passion? Obsession, total immersion, the feeling that everything else doesn't matter.

To imagine the unimaginable is the highest use of the imagination

In saying what is obvious, never choose cunning. Yelling works better.

The power of language, it seems to me, is the only kind of power a writer is entitled to.

Traveling is seeing; it is the implicit that we travel by.

The greatest ideas are best conceive when we take time to relax.

Our children are interested in the BIG picture. That is where the deep natural learning seems to get done. It is totally opposite to everything I have ever learnt at school.

For specific prayers, there are specific answers.

A tough lesson in life that one has to learn is that not everybody wishes you well.

My administration's policies on regulatory reform, tax reform, trade policies, will return significant manufacturing jobs to our country.

I'm 100 percent impartial. I'm - my responsibility is to manage this primary nominating contest neutrally and fairly.

You've always got to have a plan B. You've got to be able to shift gears and find a new course of action.

I always prefer other people's interpretations over my own, so I'm not very quick to make explicit what exactly a song or record is about.

What thrills me about trains is not their size or their equipment but the fact that they are moving, that they embody a connection between unseen places.

Then summer fades and passes and October comes. We'll smell smoke then, and feel an unexpected sharpness, a thrill of nervousness, swift elation, a sense of sadness and departure.