Patterns drawn in ultraviolet might make those ordinary little petals into the exotic peacocks of the botanical world, and yet we cannot appreciate them.

I realized it was like a dating agency: the ions are the lost souls looking for mates; the electrolyte is the agency that can help them find each other.

Funny how we look for miracles in our lives when our life is one big miracle in itself.

Communists liked history very much. It just had to be the right history. They liked to remember it selectively.

The only people truly bound by campaign promises are the voters who believe them.

It doesn't make sense to hire smart people and then tell them what to to, We hire smart people so they can tell us what to do.

Makebelieve is a writer's best friend.

What is this? Some sort of galactic hyperhearse?

Secretary of State Colin Powell, thank you so much, as always, for joining us this morning.

Play the man, Mastre Ridley; we shall this day light such a cndle, by God's grace in England, as I trust shall never be put out.

You are either moving towards or away from success at any given time. What direction are you headed in?

I always try to start out with some type of goal. Then I work backward and think of what I need to do to get there, and give myself smaller goals that are more immediate

In a strictly scientific sense God is at the bottom of both good and evil.

Literature gives us the great gift of the present moment.