Many activities and team play participation will give you a training that will prove invaluable later on in life.

I didn't want to be greedy. It's a mark of bad character and I always believed that pigs go the slaughterhouse.

Don't worry about it. Babe Ruth struck out on occasion, too.

The test of character is having the ability to meet challenges.

Too much work, too much vacation, too much of any one thing is unsound.

It is unsound for an independent editor to be a financial contributor to any cause which would cause any type of special pleading.

It is not easy to find something that will intrigue and bind your interest and enthusiasm. This you must seek for yourself.

Accomplish something every day of your life.

I cannot compromise or inhibit my independence.

The greatest power is not money power, but political power.

Live rich, die poor; never make the mistake of doing it the other way 'round.

Small children are capable of great love. Love that overwhelms. Love that changes small worlds completely. Dangerous feelings that blot out everything.

When it comes to war, we focus more on the mainstream coverage of the event, rather than the event itself. People dying is never funny. Protest puppets are always funny.

I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.

It's always flattering when somebody you really respect and like wants you to be involved in their project - let alone writes a part with your voice in mind.

I'm still at the age where I'm constantly seeking approval of people I have respect for.

I get very invested in characters, it's the only way I find that I can write a book and really make it work.

Governments must be conformable to the nature of the governed; governments are even a result of that nature.

Meditation doesn't have to be complicated. What I do is about as simple as you can get. You could just count the beads, one, two, three, with your eyes closed or open, whatever makes you happy.

If you deceive someone, you lose one of life's greatest treasures, you lose the capacity to trust. Because without trust, love is not possible.

The idol of today pushes the hero of yesterday out of our recollection; and will, in turn, be supplanted by his successor of tomorrow.