I would like to see every parent either directly - if they are comfortable with the technology - or through a personal tutor, being able to access real-time information about their child.

You've got to stop whipping a dead horse sometime.

When teachers stop learning, so do students.

Of all types of birds, birds of prey have always fascinated people.

You will always be too much of something for someone: too big, too loud, too soft, too edgy. If you round out your edges, you lose your edge.

You have to be organized, that you have to vote even when it's not exciting.

I held four clean aces. I had youth, almost a decade of hard-core bar band experience, a good group of homegrown musicians who were attuned to my performance style and a story to tell.

Times may be hard and people may be demanding, but never forget that life is special. Every single day is a special day. God is at work in you!

He missed his imagined future.

Man is never perfect nor contented.

Which way you ought to go depends on where you want to get to.

In the acting game, you spend a long time fighting against what the director perceives you to be. And half the time the directors don't know.

Bringing Mid-World to a new readership felt like a big responsibility, but I'm so glad that readers have enjoyed the story. That is a reward in itself.

Poetry is the revelation of a feeling that the poet believes to be interior and personal but which the reader recognizes as his own.