The brain is a little saline pool that acts as a conductor, and it runs on electricity.

Given the facts, our existence seems quite improbable—more miraculous, perhaps, than the seven-day wonder of Genesis.

When you walk this earth on borrowed time, each day on the calendar is a beloved friend you know for only a short time.

To serve humankind is service of being.

And let us mind faint heart ne'er wan A lady fair.

A good father believes that he does wisely to encourage enterprise, productive skill, prudent self-denial, and judicious expenditure on the part of his son.

As long as the League of Nations constitutes only a treaty of guarantee for the victorious nations, it is by no means worthy of its name.

Solemnity is a device of the body to hide the faults of the mind.

Music is so 100 percent for me that the idea of giving that up in any way, shape, or form would be terrifying to me.

I myself prefer my New Zealand eggs for breakfast.

Successful people see adversity as a stepping stone rather than a stumbling block.

I like to know why a video has suddenly gone viral, why a song has broken, why a TV show is suddenly rating out of pattern... I'm pretty good at understanding why things are becoming popular.

My literary success meant nothing to me