Even against the greatest of odds, there is something in the human spirit - a magic blend of skill, faith, and valor - that can lift men from certain defeat to incredible victory.

Brilliantly lit from stem to stern, she looked like a sagging birthday cake.

Events alone rarely provide much guide to the future.

It's a funny thing, but today the Titanic is probably much more - that is people are much more aware of it than they were in 1954, when I was doing my research.

I look for something that is highly unusual, involving ordinary people caught in extraordinary situations.

The ones that measure up are not always the ones you expect.

I never earned a dollar that was not somehow through writing.

Someone once told me the one thread that runs through them all is a premium on personal courage - not intellectual courage, but just plain physical courage.

There were exceptions, a couple of families that just plain didn't want to even think about it, although forty years had passed but mostly the people were very interested in talking about it.

Human potential is the ability of a person or humanity to put their theoretical abilities into practice

My love for Neo-Tokyo is a bulbous massof post-human organic circuitry.Cyperpunk is my mother tongue.My love is a man-machine interface gun.

Critics say Arnold has no previous government experience, but advisers say he's clearly the most qualified Austrian, ex-Mr. Universe in the race.

This is the nature of genius, to be able to grasp the knowable even when no one else recognizes that it is present.

You cannot exist as a $20 billion company with speculation.

I don't know if fury can compete with necessity as the mother of invention, but I recommend it.

To the contrary, I think we bent over backwards to press for elections and for democratic reform.

I still favor alternatives to governmental race-based preferences.

I've been terrified of the water, and yet it seems I'm forced to go into in on every movie that I make.

Ringo: 'I had no schooling before I joined The Beatles and no schooling after The Beatles. Life is a great education.