There is no water and still less soap. We have no city, but lots of hope.

I love teaching. It's a job that lasts forever. Whatever you teach children today travels with them far into the future.

Writing is a miracle. You can travel anywhere in the world, to any time and any place — and still be home in time to have dinner.

I have to keep facing the darkness. If I stand tall and face the thing I fear, I have a chance to conquer it. If I just keep dodging and hiding it will conquer me.

Reading is the basic springboard for learning. And books provide the liftoff. They are the great equalizer, opening up new worlds to everyone.

Then everything was still. Absolutely still.

The historical novel gives us perspective on our modern lives and helps us connect with the story, which we are continuing ourselves.

I believe we're entering a new era, where dynamic female leaders will have an opportunity to bring greater harmony and peace to the planet.

Artists have to believe in the merit of their own work and persevere whether they receive public recognition or not, but it's ever so nice when someone says, "Job well done"!

I think it might be nice if there was a Cosimo de' Medici around today, offering commissions to the poor, but talented artists.

set sail on a voyage of your own titanic facts

..things are never as complicated as they seem. It is only our arrogance that prompts us to find unnecessarily complicated answers to simple problems.

Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.

Strip it all down to essentials and draw the hell out of what's left.

Only indiscriminate love can make us free.

I'm trying to earn everything given to me. I play hard and I want guys to remember that when they play the Magic they have to face Dwight Howard. And when you face him you have to get after it.

Richard Burton had a tremendous passion for the English language, especially the spoken and written word

The scientific facts, which were supposed to contradict the faith in the nineteenth century, are nearly all of them regarded as unscientific fictions in the twentieth century.

Humans are, by nature, pattern-seeking, storytelling animals, and we are quite adept at telling stories about patterns whether they exist or not.

Brian Burke as we now know was the most influential person in the West Australian Labor Party, if you could attract him, you're in business.

The promises of God for tomorrow are the anchor for believers today.