Sometimes believing is as simple as choosing to do so.

...his tortured voice lost in the much grander cries of the world around him.

...pain that would have made even a god shiver in terror.

May the stars ever shine on your path, and the darkness never leave your side.

Mothers cowered over their small children, defenceless as their backs blossomed with red lines or swords were sunk into their flesh to reach the young ones they hid.

Maybe she had it wrong all this time and her empty heart could never be filled by his ingenious broken spirit. Maybe this yearning had nothing to do with him, and everything to do with her.

Movies are not novels, and that's why, when filmmakers try to adapt novels, particularly long or complex novels, the result is almost always failure. It can't be done.

The best word shakers were the ones who understood the true power of words. They were the ones who could climb the highest.

My father was a painter and he taught art. He once said to me, 'I never knew an Indian child who could not draw.'

God may not play dice with the universe, but something strange is going on with the prime numbers.

At thirty most men have prejudices rather than opinions-that is to say, rather than judgments-and few men have lived to be sixty without materially modifying the opinions they held at thirty.

I know more English than Spanish, but I'm always a little embarrassed.

Science, math and engineering can give you the exhilarating power to become not mere spectators or consumers, but the active explorers, makers and doers who will help invent the future.

Being aggressive, you can accomplish some things, but with gentleness, you can accomplish all things.

We need to learn to get along with each other and learn how to help one another.