The will is your most important asset. If you lose it, you have lost everything.

It is better to know so much about a few but important things, than to know so little about life, and much about trivial things.

The quality of knowledge youbring into the relationshipdetermines the quality of therelationship.

You must consciously choose what you know. Knowledge fromthis present social system is notdesigned to help you succeed.

Knowledge is what you know, that gives you an edge overthe ordinary person.

It is better to be a Number Two in a working system, than be a Number One yet lack capacity to make the system work.

Mathematics is life: the workings (process) is more important than the answer (proof/product). A wrong process cannot make a right product.

Your daily choices and actions should be rational and productive

Her father kneels and unclasps the urn. Above the waves she falls graceful as snow, my sister, my Sonora.

I believe one of the best ways to achieve justice is to expose injustice.

No question is ever settled until it is settled right.

Do the best you can. But I want to emphasize that it be the very best. We are too prone to be satisfied with mediocre performance. We are capable of doing so much better.

There was something very comforting about him, and I was not sure if it was his easy manner or his complete immunity to my scowling.

The initial spark usually has something to do with panic -- I'm due to turn in a story to a workshop or an editor. It's a terrible working method.

Life is short, but its ills make it seem long.

I didn't even watch the soaps when I was in them because it's like a coal miner coming home and staring at the coal scuttle - I was never a great lover of watching myself act.

Being on daytime TV has its benefits. You can still have a life and you know you have a check coming every week.