One person can only lose so much before he starts to realize that he's not strong enough to lose any more.

Writing is a dying form. One reads of this every day.

Be loving and kind all the time.

It was at this moment that I wrote my first important paper in theoretical physics. I was 32 years old, 5 years beyond the alleged age of senility for theorists.

I'm dealing with my drinking problem and I have a reputation for getting things done.

From that date the abandonment of the older State proceeded with a rapidity never before known, and with it grew the domestic slave trade and the pro-slavery feeling.

If you can somehow think and dream of success in small steps, every time you make a step, every time you accomplish a small goal, it gives you confidence to go on from there.

I love the action stuff. Honestly, I like sci-fi and everything supernatural.

Only hidden and undetected oratory is really insidious. What reaches the heart without going through the mind is likely to bounce back and put the mind out of business.

But God has a few of us to whom he whispers in the ear; The rest may reason and welcome; 'tis we musicians know.

And what it depends on, of course, is whether the story itself is worth the ethical compromise it requires and whether the competition is onto the story.