Reading literary fiction stimulates cognition beyond the brain functions related to reading, say, magazine articles, interviews, or most online nonfiction reporting.

I did not hate God or Christ, but merely the God and Christ of the people whom I hated.

High performing organizations have cultures of creativity and risk. They encourage workers to innovate and play.

Clearly, if wed had the kind of computer graphics capability then that we have now, the Star Gate sequence would be much more complex than flat planes of light and color.

I cannot convert men; I can only proclaim the Gospel

The mirror is not you. The mirror is you looking at yourself.

Neither pleasure nor pain should enter as motives when one must do what must be done.

Genius is talent exercised with courage.

We are the victims of the world's most comprehensive robbery. Life demands a balance. It's all right if we do a little robbing now.

All of us knew that climbing was a sure way to stay poor, a lousy way to impress people and definitely no way to meet girls.

Beauty is sincerity.There are so many different ways someone can be beautiful.