It's hard to outdo the Lord in generosity.

What you do for yourself is fleeting and dies with you. What you do for others has unending benefit and is eternal.

Philanthropy is the rent we pay for the joy and privilege we have for our space on this earth.

Life is a wheel. The more you give, the more you get back.

Few actions of consequence in the world have been accomplished without passion.

When we come into this life, we don't really own anything. And we own nothing when we leave. It is only a lease we have during our lifetime, and it is up to us to make the most of it.

Excellence is never an accident.

Cease trying to work everything out with your mind. It will get you nowhere. Live by intuition and inspiration and let your whole life be a Revelation.

Understanding what makes you 'tick' isn't half as much fun as finding out what makes you 'tock'!

It does not matter how strong your gravity is, we were always meant to fly.

I love short stories because I believe they are the way we live.

I don't believe in God, so I'm not afraid of dying.

We don’t have the plumbing to take care of what needs to be taken care of.

If you wish to fault the administration, it is that we didn't have a clear picture and we probably didn't do as clear a job explaining that we did not have a clear picture until days later.

Sicilians, Calabrians, Neapolitans - there were real differences between them, and then all of a sudden they're all living in the US, and then they're all Italians.

It wasn't until I was in my teens that I started admiring writers as inspirations for my own work, and my earliest influences there were Stephen King, Marion Zimmer Bradley and Richard Adams.

Taking away from someone else will never make you any better.