Events alone rarely provide much guide to the future.

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.

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.

I always thought I would be a teacher. And I think I actually lived up to my initial dreams, because what I do now is teach millions and millions of people many different kinds of things.

I don't know where my road is going, but I know that I walk better when I hold your hand.

The right diet directs sexual energy into the parts that matter.

All those rumors about her being underweight are trash. She's [Calista Flockhart] gorgeous.

The space involving insanity and genius is calculated only by good results.

Roger, Tranquility. Be advised there are lots of smiling faces in this room and all over the world. Over.

To step toward your destiny, you have to step away from your security.

If I had my whole life to live over again, I don't think I'd have the strength.

When all is well in your end, it is not enough! All must be well in every end!

Rich, ornate prose is hard to digest, generally unwholesome, and sometimes nauseating.