One of the shortcomings of our medical system is that doctors have very little time with their patients.

Our willingness to believe the news is, in many cases, not entirely innocent.

Wealthier countries have the luxury of entertaining fears the rest of the world cannot afford.

The opportunity to think with another mind is my preferred mode of travel.

Fear is isolating for those that fear. And I have come to believe that fear is a cruelty to those who are feared.

A trust-in the sense of a valuable asset placed in the care of someone to whom it does not ultimately belong-captures, more or less, my understanding of what it is to have a child.

If by years of patient suffering, God can manage to take the harshness out of my voice, then the time has been well-spent.

Not to be the salt and light on earth is to lack understanding

The kitchen door, painted red from the day Naomi moved in, and a geranium, also red, outside on the stoop, gave the whole area a feeling of whimsy.

When life gives you lemons, throw them at the zombies.

I like the idea of trying to write a book in every genre.

I think anybody in front of a crowd is a comedian.

I consider high-speed data transmission an invention that became a major innovation. It changed the way we all communicate

I mean, the general rule is if you're not prepared to make a mistake, you're not going to make much progress.

I didn't know what to expect from a famous movie star; maybe that he'd be sort of stuck-up, you know. But not Gary Cooper. He horsed around so much... that I had a hard time painting him.

Why would heavy metal ever go away?

It may be that other developers are finding that their games play better on one platform over the other, so they're choosing to migrate to that platform.