A mind that searches for answers to big questions is a mind that will discover incredible things.

Writing is painting for the imagination!

A choice made having devastating consequences for another is really not a choice. It is an act.

Some people, though related by blood, are as sworn enemies. Others, bound only by friendship, would die for one another.

The sky, with a single star, would be dark and boring. A million stars in the firmament makes for something wondrous and bright.

Storytelling is a gift, but writing is a learned art.

Great writers teach as well as entertain.

Once we forget those who have contributed time and effort in making an endeavor successful, we forget ourselves.

I think a stalwart peasant in sheep-skin coat, born on the soil, whose forefathers have been farmers for ten generations, with a stout wife and a half dozen children, is good quality

Every second of time is a doorway to unbounded possibilities. Yet if you are not open to them, these possibilities shrink.

I'm sorry, Alabama fans. I'm from New York and didn't watch football growing up.

A true desire is not to have but to be. We are whole creatures in potential, and the true purpose of desire is to unfold that wholeness, to become what we can be.

Racism is a phenomenal thing; it is like a thick mist that obscures the vision and judgement of even great minds.

How fragile we are, between the few good moments.

I love Disneyland because the teacups are so awesome. But California Adventure is the best.

I have never heard that referred to before, that term: Jewish men from Yale.

Led Zeppelin has been there through three generations of teenage angst. And there's a generation of kids now who won't know it, post-Linkin Park.