Well, it just figures, " Younger told him, like a man explaining his religion.

What is the essence of the art of writing? Part One: Have something to say. Part Two: Say it well.

Intellectual death is endemic in areas where people are unprepared to obtain new information for development. Learning is a way of staying alive.

Genius is nothing more nor less than doing well what anyone can do badly.

We must be ready to allow ourselves to be interrupted by God.....We must not.....assume that our schedule is our own to manage, but allow it to be arranged by God.

If what you are doing is important, you will encounter resistance. If what you are doing isn't important it will be easy.

The rights of some must not be enjoyed by denying the rights of others. Neither can we permit states' rights at the expense of human rights.

But one sound always rose above the clamor of busy life and, no matter how much of a tintinnabulation, was never confused and, fora moment lifted everything into an ordered sphere: that of the bells.

I was the kid who never won the races. I never jumped the highest. I wasn't on the list of the high-achieving.

I'm kinda doing a lot of stuff.

Yes, but I - you know, it's been such a long time, I'm sure that I've got cousins and uncles that I've never met before, you know, that I've left behind.