For a human being, nothing comes naturally,' said Grumman. 'We have to learn everything we do.

True education flowers at the point when delight falls in love with responsibility.

You cannot change what you are, only what you do.

That's the duty of the old, to be anxious on behalf of the young. And the duty of the young is to scorn the anxiety of the old.

After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world.

One curious thing about growing up is that you don't only move forward in time; you move backwards as well, as pieces of your parents' and grandparents' lives come to you.

We don't need lists of rights and wrongs, tables of do's and don'ts: we need books, time, and silence. Thou shalt not is soon forgotten, but Once upon a time lasts forever.

I stopped believing there was a power of good and a power of evil that were outside us. And I came to believe that good and evil are names for what people do, not for what they are.

If you want something you can have it, but only if you want everything that goes with it, including all the hard work and the despair, and only if you're willing to risk failure.

Read like a butterfly, write like a bee.

Just finished 'Secrecy' - truly enthralling both as a love story and as a tale of suspense - but much more than both.

Jealousy is a strange transformer of characters.

Without kindness there can be no true joy.

The cyberspace earnings I get from Linux come in the format of having a Network of people that know me and trust me, and that I can depend on in return.

Sunday afternoons at a parish center - or a community center - is familiar territory for me.

Death must be got through as life had been, just somehow.

Recognizing the Savior's spiritual light begins with our willingness to believe.

You and I aren't remembered for what we acquire but for what we contribute.

Leaders who keep promises and followers who respond in kind create an opportunity generate enormous energy around their commitment to serve others.

When I grew up, what was interesting for me was that music was color and life was gray. So music for me has always been more than entertainment.

If things were easy to find, they wouldn’t be worth finding.