Good fiction is made of that which is real, and reality is difficult to come by.

It takes a deep commitment to change and an even deeper commitment to grow.

Please, a definition: A hibernation is a covert preparation for a more overt action.

Education is all a matter of building bridges.

Life is to be lived, not controlled, and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat.

Power doesn't have to show off. Power is confident, self-assuring, self-starting and self-stopping, self-warming and self-justifying. When you have it, you know it.

America is woven of many strands. I would recognise them and let it so remain. Our fate is to become one, and yet many. This is not prophecy, but description.

When I discover who I am, I'll be free.

I am not ashamed of my grandparents for having been slaves. I am only ashamed of myself for having at one time being ashamed.

What and how much had I lost by trying to do only what was expected of me instead of what I myself had wished to do?

God is love, I said, but art's the possibility of forms, and shadows are the source of identity.

Still we remain, still we fight. Still we strive, still we survive.

Fairy tales only happen in movies." -George Meliesfrom The Invention of Hugo Cabret

Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability.

Quality is a direct experience independent of and prior to intellectual abstractions.

In case of dispute, the umpire shall throw it straight into the field.

My body is dropping so fast, my gynecologist wears a hard hat.

To live on the land we must learn from the ocean, to be true as the tide and free as the wind swell.

It has been well said that an effective leader must know the meaning and master the technique of the educator.

The history of the universe is, in effect, a huge and ongoing quantum computation. The universe is a quantum computer.

Ever since I was a child I've felt connected to water: lakes, rivers, streams--I love to jump in and swim around. But it's the ocean where I go for rejuvenation, revelation, and solace.