The success of any kind of social epidemic is heavily dependent on the involvement of people with a particular and rare set of social gifts.

That is the paradox of the epidemic: that in order to create one contagious movement, you often have to create many small movements first.

Contagiousness is an unexpected property of all kinds of things.

In the six degrees of separation, not all degrees are equal.

God uses the problem in the life of every man for his good

John Loengard, the picture editor at Life, always used to tell me, ”If you want something to look interesting, don’t light all of it.

Absurdly improbable things are quite as liable to happen in real life as in weak literature.

Children have an uncanny way of living up - or down - to what is expected of them.

To leave the number of births unrestricted, as is done in most states, inevitably causes poverty among the citizens, and poverty produces crime and faction.

Sorry, I've had enough of running away, Sophie. Now I've got something I want to protect. It's you.

That was my dream, to drive for Ferrari, but I am not a kid any more. If Ferrari is the best team and if I get the chance to drive for Ferrari, it would be with pleasure.

Today, Mitt Romney visited a firehouse here in New York City. Of course, he was disappointed when he learned that a firehouse isn't a house where you get to fire people.

Sometimes when I'm really enjoying a book, I'll read a sentence or paragraph and just think - how can someone's head be wired in such a way that they'd come up with that?

I don't know of a way to have a generous church without a generous pastor.