A brilliant mind was never as clever as three average minds sniffing after something of interest.

How could anyone survive even a single day, if he didn't feel as if he was, in some little great way, needed?

For honest insight into who you are, don't ask yourself what your priorities are for next week. Ask what your priorities were last week.

To improve as a player you need to not only know how you plan to win, but ... how might your opponent disrupt your plan.

A community is a small group working together. Community scales by adding groups, and building connections between them, not enlarging them.

The burden of intelligence: you can always imagine all those wonderful places where you can never belong.

A community that learns together excels together. We need to form communities that learn together.

I live for those rare and delicious moments when the words on the page take off and I am the bystander, watching as the tale shows me what will happen next.

Science fiction is really a rather tiny business compared with its giant cousin, which is fantasy.

I've always thought of science fiction as being, at some level, a 19th-century business.

Occasionally, I'll dream I'm in the factory. That will help me write. Not creatively, but more like a prod. I don't want to go back there.

The expression of gratitude for whatever blessing you receive from God here on earth can only be in Joy

I'm definitely attracted to other Australians I have a laid-back attitude to life that I feel is very Australian I love a good barbie.

Search for the perfect church if you will; when you find it, join it, and realize that on that day it becomes something less than perfect.

There are no more thorough prudes than those who have some little secret to hide.

Morally considered, laughter is next to the Ten Commandments.

Blake Lively is my style icon, and she always has rocking clothes and shoes. She keeps it really simple with hair and makeup, and I try to do the same thing.

What about you? Are you happiest and saddest right now that you've ever been?" "Of course I am." "Why?" "Because nothing makes me happier and nothing makes me sadder than you.

Fashion has to reflect who you are, what you feel at the moment, and where you're going.

No one has ever found an organism that is known not to have parents, or a parent. This is the strongest evidence on behalf of evolution.

The Iran nuclear issue is on top of the agenda. It is a very complicated issue with long history.