It would be difficult to discover the truth about the universe if we refused to consider anything that might be true.

Your goal is to achieve the best results by following their wishes. If they want you to build a house upside down standing on its chimney, it's up to you to do it.

No moment is too small to claim. Strung together, moments fashion a life.

The most absurd and reckless aspirations have sometimes led to extraordinary success.

I invented the historical spy novel.

By the late '90s, those who were paying attention perceived the Internet as a 20-foot tidal wave coming, and we are all in kayaks.

Nancy Reagan, when presented with kids with really painful disabilities and deformities, she was completely undaunted.

It's not enough just to be a mother. It's not only the social pressure on mothers by certain kinds of feminism and other sources. There is also economic pressure on them.

I'm awkward around girls.

People are only mean when they're threatened, and that's what our culture does. That's what our economy does.

It never hurts to think too highly of a person; often they become ennobled and act better because of it.

The character of Rocky was built on the idea that he was chosen to do something. That's why the first image in Rocky is the picture of Christ.