I've always tried to write the kind of book I most loved to read: character-centered adventure.

The dead cannot cry out for justice. It is a duty of the living to do so for them.

Poets speak of hope in ladies smiles, but give me a smirk any day, I say.

Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.

Don't wish to be normal. Wish to be yourself. To the hilt. Find out what you're best at, and develop it, and hopscotch your weaknesses. Wish to be great at whatever you are.

I'm very interested in the impact of biotechnology on the way people live.

If you can't be seven feet tall, be seven feet smart.

Aim high. You may still miss the target, but at least you won't shoot your foot off.

Since no one is perfect, it follows that all great deeds have been accomplished out of imperfection. Yet they were accomplished, somehow, all the same.

When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.

Adversity does teach who your real friends are.

If Jesus had been killed twenty years ago, Catholic school children would be wearing little electric chairs around their necks instead of crosses.

Power is a curious thing. Who lives, Who dies. Power resides where men believe it resides. It is a trick, A shadow on the wall.

You can never be free of their criticism until you no longer seek their praise.

Why can't a girl just want to know stuff and not do stuff?

We are not responsible for what we do; we are ignorant of our acts until we accomplish them.

He's fantastic on the ground but obviously he is very tall. (on Peter Crouch)

We don't have mad cow disease. We probably never will have mad cow disease, and therefore, it's a non-problem in the United States.

Man up and add a tux to your wardrobe. Just find one you like and get it well-tailored to your own measurements.

Deliberando saepe perit occasio [The opportunity often slips away while we deliberate on it].

Practice. Listen. Use you ears. And as Rob [Halford] said, that team effort. You can learn your instrument in your room, but being in a band is more than playing your instrument.