Each and every one of us holds the amazing power to modify our life at any time we decide to do so.

One of the embarrassing facts from social psychology is that most stereotypes are true, in the only sense that stereotypes are ever true: on average.

To me, cases like that really scream out, 'Hey, it's not out there. It's in here.' There's no indication that this mother is prone to raise very feminine boys because his twin is not that way.

When we walk along the beach and feel the sand beneath our toes and then the surf sends small waves to gently caress our feet

You can never achieve greatness until you can leave bitterness behind.

I opened my mouth to tell her that everything would be okay, but the words melted like sugar on my tongue-sweet yet insubstantial.

Education is learning to grow, learning what to grow toward, learning what is good and bad, learning what is desirable and undesirable, learning what to choose and what not to choose.

He has drawn back, only in order to have enough room for his leap

If you do not write for publication, there is little point in writing at all.

You don't paint pictures to put them in your attic. You want people to look at them.

The United States, democratic and various though it is, is not an easy country for a fiction-writer to enter: the slot between the fantastic and the drab seems too narrow.

Our civilization is shifting from science and technology to rhetoric and litigation.

If I have said something to hurt a man once, I shall not get the better of this by saying many things to please him.