We had discovered an accursed country. We had found the Home of the Blizzard.

It's dead easy to die; it's the keeping on living that's hard.

In no department can a leader spend time more profitably than in the selection of the men who are to accomplish the work.

Dangling in space I realised I could always slip out of the harness. I looked forward to the peace of the great release.

It takes people with Vision to be in company with someone with a Mission, in Conviction

One needs to be beyond love and above humanity to wield power, or so I sometimes think.

Every time a written word is put to page it is the opportunity to expand our minds, whether we are the writer or the reader. Enjoy the journey wherever it may take you!

Racism is still with us. But it is up to us to prepare our children for what they have to meet, and, hopefully, we shall overcome.

To be interested is to be absorbed in, wrapped up in, carried away by, some object. To take an interest is to be on the alert, to care about, to be attentive.

Where you can see tribal behavior now is in this business about teaching evolution in a science class and intelligent design. It's the scientists themselves are behaving tribally.

Open your eyes, soldier,” Tatiana said fondly, caressing his face.“Are you hungry?” “I was hungry,” Alexander said. “But you fed me.” His body was shaking underneath his sheet.

I knew absolutely nothing about acting, and had to be taught everything. Some people are born naturals and know how to walk, talk and hold themselves. I didn't and had to learn everything.

I feel a little whirl of dislocation -- the trademark sensation of the world being more closely knit together than you expected

Advocates for a single line of progress encounter their greatest stumbling block when they try to find a smooth link between the apparently disparate designs of the invertebrates and vertebrates.