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

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.

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

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.

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.

...but how could I have stopped him from taking what was already his?

You want to be great? Help others achieve their greatness

We stand strong together - as Americans - many cultures, races and faiths, but one nation under God.

If my life is surrendered to God, all is well. Let me not grab it back, as though it were in peril in His hand but would be safer in mine!

I didn't want to be a dancer... I just did it to work my way through college. But I was always an athlete and gymnast, so it came naturally.

The objection of the scandalmonger is not that she tells of racy doings, but that she pretends to be indignant about them.

The danger of having too close deadlines... It could lead you to just accept an avenue that's not quite good enough.

Forgiveness is a game only saints play Kabir.

The sons of Adam are formed from dust; if not humble as the dust, they fall short of being men.

The point is, technology has empowered so many musicians, you know?