Dawn itself is the most neglected masterpiece of the modern world.

Still the noise in the mind: that is the first task - then everything else will follow in time.

When you listen carefully to the soundscape it becomes quite miraculous.

We cannot close our ears; we have no ear lids!

The earth forms the body of an instrument, across which strings are stretched and are tuned by a divine hand. We must try once again to find the secret of that tuning.

Success goes to the ones who do. Get up. Show up. Throw up if you have to. Do it afraid, but do it no matter.

Throughout its history, the international Olympic Committee has struggled to spread its ideal of fraternity, friendship, peace and universal understanding.

We cannot really look at the movement of the Spirit, just because It is the Power by which we do the looking.

Among precautions against ambition, it may not be amiss to take precautions against our own. I must fairly say, I dread our own power and our own ambition: I dread our being too much dreaded.

About First Landing by Robert Zubrin: Someday I'd like to read a story about competent people on Mars.

Freedom and liberty always mean freedom from police interference.

The Empire of Wisdom is the only empire on which the sun never sets!

I remembered what Thoreau had written in his journal about thinking nothing of walking eight miles to greet a tree.

If you've attended the Cordon Bleu, you would know that no woman is supposed to be a chef - only men.

At MTV, although the audience is smaller, I found it more interesting to deliver news to a specific group of people, because my story then did not have to try to be all things to all people.