It's an old and honored tradition for war heroes to be promoted to important offices, whether or not they're suited to it

All nights end, and all storms clear. The only storms that last are those within your own soul.

Clarity is often found in stillness.

We best teach what we ourselves have learned.

The wise man understands his weakness and seeks to find a lesson from it. The fool lets it control and destroy him.

I really do enjoy getting out to meet my readers. Writing is such a solitary business, it's gratifying to thank folks in person and really connect as human beings and not just words on a screen.

Fear makes people do cruel things, things they'll be ashamed of later

It was never a big leap from "unfamiliar" to "suspected

When we create, we become stronger. When we create, we feel better. When we create, we can use our own two hands to create a new world. And this new world will be as we want it to be.

When we love children, we acknowledge by our every action that they are not property, that they have rights - that we respect and uphold their rights.

I am perhaps more proud of having helped to redeem the character of the cave-man than of any other single achievement of mine in the field of anthropology.

The storm before the calm.

I've never really had a desire to do Shakespeare. For me, it's just too many lines.

After a couple of years, I realized that this was actually true, that his gave me the ability to go to a different place and, hopefully, have a stronger impact.

Everyone seems to think I'm very ladylike. That I'm very cultured and intelligent. I drink alot of Diet Coke and belch. I've been known to use the F-word. I've told a few dirty jokes. I arm-wrestle.

For 40 years, I put my body through a tremendous amount of work.

In other localities certain places in the streams are much better than others, but at Niagara one place is just as good as another, for the reason that the fish do not bite anywhere.

Just being able to express myself and reach so many other people by doing so is really great!