Creativity is essentially a lonely art. An even lonelier struggle.

Rocket shipsare excitingbut so are roseson a birthday.

There are rules to luck, not everything is chance for the wise; luck can be helped by skill.

The very phrase 'foreign affairs' makes an Englishman convinced that I am about to treat of subjects with which he has no concern.

We dreamed of doing but could not bring ourselves to do.

When a man dies he kicks the dust.

In the end, the type of parent you are is going to be something that you carry with you. ... Having multiple kids, it's been a gift in a way. It's keeping the priorities straighter.

no one has ever accused Texas of being in the vanguard of social progress. This is the most macho state in the U.S. of A. By lore, legend, and fact, Texas is 'hell' on women and horses.

The most important advance that the West has yet made is to develop a secularist moral tradition

Nothing is more real than nothing.

Death is very likely the single best invention of life. It is life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.