There are constant cycles in history. There is loss, but it is always followed by regeneration. The tales of our elders who remember such cycles are very important to us now.

Because there is no nation so powerful it cannot be wounded, nor a people so small they cannot offer mighty comfort.

I find that it takes a lot of years of living, and many more of reckoning, to come up with one worthwhile paragraph. And when a deadline looms, prayer doesnt hurt, either.

If one mouse is a spark...then ten thousand are a conflagration.

Whatever we perceive as good in the world has always endured, and it always will.

I began telling stories as a volunteer in my daughters' school. But I grew up hearing stories from Cuban and Southern storytellers, and I learned a great deal by just being quiet and listening.

I can remember a case where Capablanca worked out an impressive combination, but then chose to make a simple move in answer to which his opponent resigned at once!

I cannot speak for the way God deals with others; I only know how he deals with me personally.

Awareness is a powerful catalyst for positive change.

The core of character lies in each individual story person's ability to care about something; to feel implicitly or explicitly that something is important.

Not only ought fortune to be pictured on a wheel, but every thing else in this world.

The whole key of the profitable everyday living will be to discover out what's one's future to try and do, and after that do it.

The political process consists entirely of politicians talking out of their butts.

An occasional lucky guess as to what makes a wife tick is the best a man can hope for, Even then, no sooner has he learned how to cope with the tick than she tocks.

If they want to play football, we can play football.

I definitely have a kind of Stockholm Syndrome for superhero movies because it's very clear that's the era we're in. It's like Christianity in the Middle Ages.