I began my writing career in a very isolated place and time.

The dead cannot cry out for justice. It is a duty of the living to do so for them.

Poets speak of hope in ladies smiles, but give me a smirk any day, I say.

Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.

Don't wish to be normal. Wish to be yourself. To the hilt. Find out what you're best at, and develop it, and hopscotch your weaknesses. Wish to be great at whatever you are.

I'm very interested in the impact of biotechnology on the way people live.

If you can't be seven feet tall, be seven feet smart.

Aim high. You may still miss the target, but at least you won't shoot your foot off.

Since no one is perfect, it follows that all great deeds have been accomplished out of imperfection. Yet they were accomplished, somehow, all the same.

When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.

Adversity does teach who your real friends are.

Remember: worry, fear, and negative thoughts produce a yield from those thoughts that have to be inevitably reaped after they have been sown!

I love mankind; it's people I can't stand.

Out of association grows adhesion, and out of adhesion amalgamation.

To be is not a choice, but the way you feel about it certainly is.

There is within us a moral instinct which forbids us to rejoice at the death of even an enemy.

Politics, glamor, fame - they're all mixed up together, and they always have been.

Often, just as when they were children, it was four against one when some argument came up. At least they no longer sat on him to force him to submit to their wishes.

Art arises from sources other than logic." (p.32)

The genius of architecture seems to have shed its maledictions over this land.

There are only two economists in Congress and hundreds of lawyers. Does that explain why the government is in such a mess?