We can what-if ourselves to death... But what-if never does anybody any good. All any of us ever have...is one thing, and we better make the most of it while we can: What is.

There's only one ball game for any writer, and it's to keep you turning the pages. That's the whole ball game. That's what I have to do.

It's like they take poison and then hope for the other person to die.

A family of three had become, in Michael Arroyo's young mind, an army of two.

Michael still thought of Havana as home, because he was born there. And he had been Miguel Arroya there. Here, he was Michael.

The audience that I try to reach are members of what I call the church alumni association. Now they are people who have not found in institutional religion a God big enough to be God for their world.

Teaching kids about health and fitness is important to me. It's about being fit for life.

The biggest labor problem is tomorrow.

What is at a peak is certain to decline. He who shows his hand will surely be defeated. He who can prevail in battle by taking advantage of his enemy's doubts is invincible.

I'd always wanted to do these types of things - pieces of magic I could put out not as illusions, but really doing it.

I know from growing up in the spotlight, as it were, that the most important thing is your family.

Over the years, Ive covered 22,000 miles.

Let go the lure The striving to unmake; Behold the truth Whenever heart may ache There is a glory In a great mistake.

A poetic list is a talent in itself. You can write a list of things, and it can be boring.

The Ideal is the invisible Sun which is always on the meridian of the soul.