This wasn't prayer anyway, it was just argument with the gods. Prayer, he suspected as he hoisted himself up and turned for the door, was putting one foot in front of the other. Moving all the same.

The dead cannot cry out for justice. It is a duty of the living to do so for them.

Poets speak of hope in ladies smiles, but give me a smirk any day, I say.

Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.

Don't wish to be normal. Wish to be yourself. To the hilt. Find out what you're best at, and develop it, and hopscotch your weaknesses. Wish to be great at whatever you are.

I'm very interested in the impact of biotechnology on the way people live.

If you can't be seven feet tall, be seven feet smart.

Aim high. You may still miss the target, but at least you won't shoot your foot off.

Since no one is perfect, it follows that all great deeds have been accomplished out of imperfection. Yet they were accomplished, somehow, all the same.

When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.

Adversity does teach who your real friends are.

A versifier passes through the sound

Which just goes to show, I guess, that dinner parties are like everything else - not as fragile as we think they are.

What you reveal shows the essence of your teaching

A committee is a group of individuals who all put in a perfectly good color, and it comes out gray.

I get a huge kick out of training people, out of helping people, out of just being a part of a process that I get to see people's dreams come true.

It may not be easy, life isn't easy, but dreams keep you alive.

I can pull a bone out of my shoulder and dislocate it

Here's the thing with lyrics: Words are just another musical instrument.

Businesses that run well are almost like marriages. Everything has to be up for discussion, or there will be real problems.

It seems so tragic to me that so many filmmakers are making movies up against this extra-ordinary revolution with one eye closed and two hands tied behind their backs.