Creativity is an unending exercise in uncertainty.

Cherish your human connections: your relationships with friends and family.

What I like about cities is that everything is king size, the beauty and the ugliness.

Twentieth-century Russian literature has produced nothing special except perhaps one novel and two stories by Andrei Platonov, who ended his days sweeping streets.

How delightful to find a friend in everyone.

There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.

For darkness restores what light cannot repair.

I sit in the dark. And it would be hard to figure out which is worse; the dark inside, or the darkness out.

Geography blended with time equals destiny.

Life—the way it really is—is a battle not between good and bad, but between bad and worse

Poetry is what is gained in translation.

Encouragement gives us wings to fly on.

There are so many people out there that will tell you that you can't. What you've got to do is turn around and say "Watch me!

My trust in a higher power that wants me to survive and have love in my life, is what keeps me moving forward.

You want people to feel like they belong to something. And not be elitist. You don't want us to be elitist.

ability atrophies through lack of exercise.

We do a disservice to society if we ignore the evidence which shows that stable families tend to be associated with better outcomes for children.

I felt I was duty-bound under contract to stick with Cleveland, and I can truthfully say, in all my playing days there and everywhere, I never shirked a duty to baseball.

We were all kind of freaked out recording the first album because we didn't know what it would be like.

Do not figure out big plans at first, but, begin slowly, feel your ground and proceed up and up.

We have been far too aggressive about extracting ocean wildlife, not appreciating that there are limits and even points of no return.