No one has yet determined the power of the human species . . . what it may perform by instinct, and what it may accomplish with rational determination.

The universe is our picture. Only the immature imagine the cosmos to be what they think it is.

Discovery is dangerous . . . but so is life. A man unwilling to take risk is doomed never to learn, never to grow, never to live.

If you surrender, you have already lost. If you refuse to give up, though, no matter the odds against you, at least you have succeeded in trying.

Each day is an opportunity to build the defenses of peace in the minds of people.

You may face opposition not only because you are doing something wrong, but because you are doing something right. Not all oppositions are meant for a better life!

Oh, how I wish I was a woman—his woman.

In reality, I don't see myself as a man hunter. In fact, when it comes to love, I am rarely the one to make the first move.

A mistake is a future benefit, the full value of which is yet to be realized.

You can't clobber any reader while he's looking. You divert his attention, then you clobber him and he never knows what hit him.

I really believe one of the jobs of a writer is to stretch as far as you can into other voices.

Nothing is accidental in the universe - this is one of my Laws of Physics - except the entire universe itself, which is Pure Accident, pure divinity.

We must remember that politics is more than a power game. The core of politics in my view is to serve our citizens, to serve our fellow human beings.

No one likes to admit that in the end we all die by inches, gradually losing all the defining visual characteristics that make us us