The passion to teach, to share deeplyexperienced “lessons from life, ” is embedded in all literature.

A lot of childhood effort, worry, and whispering goes into cracking the codes of adult life. Children have to be accomplished spies.

The pie of success is undoubtedly big enough for everyone to work hard enough for it and get a hefty slice.

Every book of tactics in the regiment was in use from morning until night, and the officers and non-commissioned officers were always studying the problems presented at the schools.

When you improvise, you work off the laughs from the audience, but when you step on stage to do standup, it's silent.

The reason I don't like realist, photorealist, neorealist, or whatever, is that I am as interested in the artificial as I am in the real.

Nature has left this tincture in the blood, That all men would be tyrants if they could.

For the most part, biophiliacs,lovers of life, are found among simple people, without pretensions.

Ireland, Italy and Brazil are the most musical places for me. They're extremely musical cultures and anything you pitch they basically catch.

There is plenty of room to make a profit in a zero-carbon economy; but the profit motive is not going to be the midwife for that great transformation.

Walk, first, through the fire, then philosophize.

A few years ago, users of Internet services began to realize that when an online service is free, you're not the customer. You're the product.