Simplicity carried to an extreme becomes elegance.

Simplicity, carried to an an extreme, becomes elegance.

The writer, like everyone else, is equipped in infancy with a thick padding of things he believes to be true, but which aren't.

Good at something necessarily doesn't means you are bad at all the other things

You need a good, healthy diet - it's about finding out what your body needs. Sugar is a disaster for skin, as is white flour.

I didn't realize until I was older what a huge music fan my daddy really was, and actually that my grandma played banjo at one time, and I didn't even know that until a year or two ago.

I have such a love of good music that I find even melancholic music uplifting. Maybe I'm a rare breed.

We didn't really differ [with Frank Moore Cross] because we have the same love of the text. We share that love.

My overall look on things is a lot more mature than it used to be.

Homework, I have discovered, involves a sharp pencil and thick books and long sighs.

Businessmen must move with the times...the correlation between knowledge and business as the key to success is closer than ever.

To love another person you have to undertake some fragment of their destiny.

The only people who ever prize purity of ignorance are those who profit from a monopoly on knowledge.