Public education rests precariously on the skill and virtue of the people at the bottom of the institutional pyramid.

The hardest thing was learning to write. I was 13, and the only writing I had done was for Social Studies. It consisted of copying passages right out of the encyclopedia

Writing is revision. All prose responds to work.

Don't worry about being worried. You're heading out on an adventure and you can always change your mind along the way and try something else.

You do the right thing even if it makes you feel bad. The purpose of life is not to be happy but to be worthy of happiness.

among a coward's weapons, cynicism is the nastiest of all

The combination of domesticity and wildness - that's a deep expression

Things were here before you and will be here after you're gone. The geographic features, especially, give you a sense of your own place in the world and in time

I know that to write you have to have stories you want to tell. You have to keep your mind alive, and you have to work hard.

In order to go on with our lives, we are always capable of making the ominous into the merely strange.

Continuity is one of the things I like about New England.

Most people quit because they are worried about what people are saying. Don’t worry about people worry about you. Dr victor Ide-Okoye

The actual language of life is not the charts and graphs and stuff we map out to feel smart. The hidden language we are speaking is really about negotiating the feeling God used to give us.

I find a certain comfort, " confesses Marinus, "in humanity's helplessness.

Why is it that when people have no capacity for private usefulness they should be so anxious to serve the public?

Music is my life, it is a reflection of what I go through.

It's amazing how people will give when you don't ask. Many of them send money because they believe in the message.

There should be more attention paid to scientific research in the ecology area, and I think that such attention to proper environmental concerns would make the public feel much better about it.

There is a desire for change. There is a millennial generation that doesn't like what they're seeing, but doesn't quite know what the solution is.

Every enterprise is learning and teaching institution. Training and development must be built into it on all levels, training and development that never stop.

Commit a crime, and the earth is made of glass.