To me war is something to be outgrown, recognized as immature, wasteful, and so destructive to life that human beings should shun it ... as they once shunned bubonic plague.

I have fallen in love with the imagination. And if you fall in love with the imagination, you understand that it is a free spirit. It will go anywhere, and it can do anything.

Womanist is to feminist as purple is to lavender.

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.

No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

Look closely at the present you are constructing: it should look like the future you are dreaming.

Whenever you are creating beauty around you, you are restoring your own soul.

I don’t need a certain number of friends, just a number of friends I can be certain of.

Every small positive change we make in ourselves repays us in confidence in the future.

In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they're still beautiful.

'Thank you' is the best prayer that anyone could say. I say that one a lot. Thank you expresses extreme gratitude, humility, understanding.

True Martial Arts is universal, simple and practical. Anything else is too complex to be used in combat.

You think this is living? This is eating, nothing else.

'Anthony and the Magic Picture Frame' tells it like it really was in America's early space program - the adventure, the risks, and the rewards.

It is no secret that souls sometimes die in a person and are replaced by others.

In most books, the I, of first person, is omitted; in this it will be retained; that, in respect to egotism, is the main difference.

John Brown was tried for treason, murder, and inciting slaves to insurrection.

We didn't create ISIS. ISIS created ISIS.

To double your income, triple your investment in self-development.

People call me all the time and say, “Man, your players aren't signed yet.” Well, it doesn't really matter what time dinner is when you're the steak.

And that singular anomaly, the lady novelist-- I don't think she'd be missed--I'm sure she'd not be missed!