I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.

Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.

You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.

The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.

A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.

If you're going through hell, keep going.

When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber.

Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential.

The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.

Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.

The breath of life is in the sunlight and the hand of life is in the wind.

Maybe it's not about the journey but rather the way you imagine the journey when you read a book.

You make velocity look good.

Sci-fi doesn't show me much about alien's nature but shows a lot about North American nature.

I used to care about how I looked. Now I don’t care as much. Maybe it’s because I’m so handsome.

There isnt a single windmill owner in Holland who doesnt have a second job, for when there is no wind.

I don't really sit in the sun I have a flagstone terrace surrounding the swimming pool and just carrying the script from the office to the living room gives me an instant suntan.

I've described my usual writing process as scrambling from peak to peak on inspiration through foggy valleys of despised logic. Inspiration is better when you can get it.

I have no doubt that given a real choice, the vast majority of Muslims and Arabs, like everyone else will choose a free society over a fear society.

I expect to fight that proposition until hell freezes over. Then I propose to start fighting on the ice.