The only way to be true to our American tradition is to maintain absolute governmental neutrality regarding religious beliefs and practices

Leadership is unlocking people's potential to become better.

When you're not practicing, someone somewhere is. And when the two of you meet, assuming roughly equal ability, the other person will win.

Ambition is the path to success. Persistence is the vehicle you arrive in.

Every time I have some moment on a seashore, or in the mountains, or sometimes in a quiet forest, I think this is why the environment has to be preserved.

A lot of people want to change the world, but only a few people want to change themselves. When it comes to the issue of race in America, we have to do both.

Becoming number one is easier than remaining number one.

I think the political process has degenerated into name-calling and extremism, and I think that that's unfortunate.

The taste of defeat has a richness of experience all its own.

I might lose because I wasn't tall enough; I might lose because I wasn't fast enough. But I wasn't going to lose because I wasn't ready.

Sports is a metaphor for overcoming obstacles and achieving against great odds. Athletes, in times of difficulty, can be important role models.

if god had intended us to follow recipes, He wouldn't have given us grandmothers.

I never had one hour's happiness in her society, and yet my mind all round the four-and-twenty hours was harping on the happiness of having her with me unto death.

it is not what happens to you, it is what happens in you.

I have worked too damn hard encasing that beating life force into a steel box.

Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad.

It turns out dentists don't like it very much when you show up for a cleaning in full vampire gear.

I'm a biologist who has been interested in the biological roots of cognitive phenomena.

From fried witchetty grubs to gold-plated turnips, when you're a writer you never know what's going to appear on your plate next. It keeps a woman alert, it does.

I always try and come up with a clear theme when I'm making a videogame.