Well-liked… a dangerous quality in a leader.

People want to believe.

Freedom is a terrible burden, much too heavy for the weak man to bear.

The surprise was worse that the pain. It showed a lack of awareness.

Time is the only thing even money can't buy.

Love your children while they are young. Because they grow up soon enough, and then… then the have no need of you.

I'm married to the future.

Yeah, well, you believe what you want to. I live in the real world.

Man had to hang on to his pride.

Thinking of it, and doing it… they're not the same.

Ignorance is fertile ground.

The Lord's questions always reveal the true me to myself.

The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see.

I wouldn't say that I'm a travel novelist, but rather a novelist who travels - and who uses travel as a background for finding stories of places.

It comes down to competitiveness. I hate to lose. We want people in our organization that hate to lose - that want to compete every single day, so you continue to strive to win.

At the end of the day, the internet is a fair space. A medium of infinite resource. And something we've never had before, ever. But people aren't connecting the dots, and that's what scares me.

I come from Bridgeport, Connecticut and have friends I grew up with there.

when I talk about a writing life, I'm talking about a life in which writing is the dominant response to living.

In science, a path that turns out to be a dead end is very useful because you don't devote resources to focusing on that; you go elsewheres.

Virtue herself is her own fairest reward.

I want to go working with good people on something that's good, because otherwise it's a big waste of time. I don't have that much time.