Desire for gain and fear of loss burn like fire.

Is it not the artist who - like our dreams - dissolves the pretenses that hide us from ourselves, disclosing both our self-serving fantasies and our unsuspected potentialities?

Myths of the heroes speak most eloquently of man's quest to choose life over death.

To adopt the posture of the hero is the most unheroic of all acts.

Without Satan, no Christ.

Don't back down just to keep the peace. Standing up for yourself builds self confidence and self esteem.

Well, as you know, General Motors does not make hybrids. Ford only made 4,000 hybrids last year.

A great business has to have a conscience. You have to know who you are and who you are not.

Come my little one, and give me your hand.

Me? I had no dreams. No longings. Dreams only set you up for disappointment. Plus, you had to have a life to have dreams of a better life.

If you want to love God better, hate sin more.

When you write what you know, you stay in control. One of the first things I encourage my writing students to do is to lose control - say what they want to say, break structure.

Don't be late. Learn your lines. Be good to people. Treat people nice.

Nothing happened today. And if anything did, I’d rather not talk about it, because I didn’t understand it.

Youth, however, is a defect that she is fast getting away from and may perhaps be entirely rid of before I shall want her.