When parents watch scientist after scientist describe the dangers of GM foods, I wouldn't want to be a stubborn food service director trying to stand in their way.

Sustainability: It's the right thing to do, it's the smart thing to do, it's the profitable thing to do.

Did we put our kids in 0.5-mile-per-gallon (mpg) tanks and 17 feet per gallon aircraft carriers because we failed to put them in 32-mpg cars?

Awake my great soul.Awake my great spirit.Awake my great strength.

Thoughts are pennies from Heaven

It's not what happens to you but your response to it that will either make you better or bitter.

What you are will show, ultimately. Start now, every day, becoming, in your actions, your regular actions, what you would like to become in the bigger scheme of things.

I don't care about the genre so much. I'm good with horror, but I like other genres, too.

I'm quite scared of flying, and especially helicopters, I don't like them at all.

The yearning for strong leadership is more about strength of purpose - clarity of vision - than about merely 'getting tough'.

Writers are always diverse on the inside.

Openings come quickly, sometimes, like blue space in running clouds. A complete overcast, then a blaze of light.

Martyrs, martyrs, martyrs,... we want a million martyrs to march on Jerusalem.