Throughout history the exemplary teacher has never been just an instructor in a subject; he is nearly always its living advertisement.

Make sure your message is clear, yet that you are faithful to its complexity.

What matters are those ordinary acts of kindness and of love, not vaulting ambition with its attendant hubris and smugness.

The world is a library of strange and wonderful books, and sometimes we just need to go prowling through the stacks.

I sometimes lie awake at night and try to imagine what would be the best period in history to spend one's seventy-odd years.

Science fiction is, after all, the art of extrapolation.

Order and surprise: these are two intertwined elements that make for any great library or collection.

Best selling authors are always worth listening to, even if you choose to ignore their advice.

I am shocked that we seemed to have learned nothing, absolutely nothing, from Vietnam.

I think the essence of [Kurt] Vonnegut's humanism lay in his emphasis on human kindness as, so to speak, our saving grace.

I think that his [Kurt Vonnegut's] appeal, though, will always be chiefly to adolescents. His sense of the world matches that of young people, who feel deeply life's absurdity.

The world of art is not a world of immortality but of metamorphosis.

When you're in young love your pulse pounds, your palms sweat, and there are butterflies in your stomach. It's like diarrhea for your heart.

My wife drives the wrong way on a one way street. The cop pulled her over and asked, "Where are you going?" My wife said, "I must be late, everyone is all coming back!"

The core of humanity's sin problem is not a horizontal behavior to be corrected but a Vertical relationship to be restored.

Identity in the form of continuity of personality is an extremely important characteristic of the individual.

What do you feel? I’ve never been asked this question once. None of us has. We aren’t supposed to feel. We’re British.

If we forget who we lost, then we forget who we once were, and if we forget who we once were, we lose sight of who we are now.

There are good, God-fearing persons who still fall into certain faults, and it is better to bear with them than to be hard on them.

My house has always been like everyone's house. You walk in, you're a part of the family, no matter who you are, what celebrity status you are, everyone is treated the same - with love from my mom.

There are two ways of being creative. One can sing and dance. Or one can create an environment in which singers and dancers flourish.