My courses do not intimidate. Instead, they encourage the player to play well and become more open to the enjoyable aspects of the game.

I am absolutely delighted to have come second. Who cares about winning when you can be second? I love being runner-up.

All the stuff you can’t wait to get away from, until it’s not there anymore, and then you miss it like crazy.

...I had always believed prayer ought to be conducted on our feet rather than on our knees, since God seems in all other departments of life to require us to stand upright and account for ourselves.

Too much mystery is merely an annoyance. Too much adventure is exhausting. And a little terror goes a long way.

The main thing we can learn from The Lord of the Rings is that we who are in a position to save the world (by which I mean all of us) do so primarily to save our friends.

No important change in ethics was ever accomplished without an internal chage in our intellectual emphasis, loyalties, affections, and convictions.

Socialism is practical, in the best sense of the term; a living, vital force of inestimable value to society.

A creative block is a fear about the future, a guess about the dangers dwelling in the dark computer and the locked studio.

Seek ye first the good things of the mind, and the rest will either be supplied or its loss will not be felt.

If a country doesn't recognize minority rights and human rights, including women's rights, you will not have the kind of stability and prosperity that is possible.

Always warm up the audience with a joke....If you are not a particularly funny person, make sure that you inform them that it's a joke.