Confidence is not arrogance.

Believe in yourself and great things will happen.

Diversity is wisdom.

The words went round and round and round in my mind and my body, until I knew they were no longer my words but something that had been carved into my heart.And now my soul was crying.

Wisdom reveals the beauty of the mind.

I always feel it is a shortcoming of mine as a reader and as a writer that I frankly need to like somebody.

Fashion starts with fashionable people.

All clean and comfortable I sit down to write.

If we are to save humanity and the planet from the worst mass extinction of all time, worse even than that at the end of the Permian, we must stop at two degrees.

They are playing a game. They are playing at not playing a game. If I show them I see they are, I shall break the rules and they will punish me. I must play their game, of not seeing I see the game.

The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him. That remark in itself wouldn't make any sense if quoted as it stands.

Giving your son a skill is better than giving him one thousand pieces of gold.

What you feed your mind determines your appetite.