Learning is a process whereby a human being, or group, or organization, or society comes to understand and embody nature's patterns.

Discipline means looking beyond the appearance, beyond that which is visible and acknowledging one Infinite Cause.

So much of my self worth was tied with my position. It felt like I was being enveloped in darkness. It was a sense of loss of enthusiasm, a loss of happiness, a significant decline in self worth.

Plot is very important to me, but I think my stories are stronger in character development.

I was raised in farm and ranch communities, and my dad wanted me to be a cowboy like him, but I saw how he struggled in life and wanted more than that.

My childhood in Corfu shaped my life. If I had the craft of Merlin, I would give every child the gift of my childhood.

If you think, you are important, you are not.

I am convinced Socialism is the only answer and I urge all comrades to take this struggle to a victorious conclusion. Only this will free us from the chains of bigotry and exploitation.

Anything that benefits the public and not just big banking, that's what I'm with.

Not the absorption capacity of the land, but the creative ability of a people, is the true yardstick with which we can measure the immigration potentialities of the land.

A chess game, after all, is a fight in which all possible factors must be made use of, and in which a knowledge of the opponent's good and bad qualities is of the greatest importance.

I wrote speculative fiction because I loved to read it, and thought I could do better than some of the people who were getting published.

Gender equality is more successful than armed force.

Many people forget that Jazz, no matter what form it takes, must come from the heart as well as the mind.

Fortunately, I'm married to someone who's a pretty excellent parent!