Reflect upon your present blessings -- of which every man has many -- not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.

It is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas when the Great Creator was a child himself.

... Any Christian spirit working kindly in its little sphere, whatever it may be, will find its mortal life too short for its vast means of usefulness!

The air was filled with phantoms... and... the misery with them all was, clearly, that they sought to interfere, for good, in human matters, and had lost the power forever.

Technology is the campfire around which we tell our stories.

Of the thousands who have paid homage to virtue, barely one has thought to inspect the pedestal on which it stands.

If you do not believe you can do it then you have no chance at all.

It seems to me that there must be an ecological limit to the number of paper pushers the Earth can sustain.

It's not possible to have a problem without believing a prior thought. To notice this simple truth is the beginning of peace.

When I'm talking to an artist, I'm not being malicious when I tell them their music is wack. These are artists with mad money and fame so why should they care about my critique?

It's really hard when you read literature in a language that's not your own. There are all these cultural references you have to be born into that particular language to get.

Creativity is not to be rudely shoved into being

The game is choreographed; it is mental, it is physical, it is a battle. People can feel those hits when they are in the stadium, you feel them and you see the velocity of the players.

Man, he deserves a hero cookie. (Selena)