What is genius, anyway, if it isn't the ability to give an adequate response to a great challenge?

I wondered if a blessing is still a blessing if it lasts for only a little while.

Keep in mind that life produces no maestros, only students of varying shades of ineptitude.

The world is not a rational place.

Even if you forget everything else I want you to always remember that you are a person of value, and you have a friend who loved you enough to give you his most valued possession.

Look inside yourself and you'll find a world of things (a world of your own experiences)worth writing about.

When people's emotions are involved they don't want to listen.

It seems to me that a man who is incapable of humor is capable of cruelty.

Fun, like champagne bubbles, can't completely fill you up.

Longevity can't be the only test of love.

Experiencing life through a book can help you learn without all the pain of going through the experiences first hand.

The impartiality of history is not that of the mirror, which merely reflects objects, but of the judge, who sees, listens, and decides.

Strive not for perfection..but for lives and loves that matter.

All things are possible with God, but all things are not easy.

My feeling about executive bonuses is that any candidate for a chief executive job who even raises the issue of bonuses should be dismissed out of hand.

There is only one immutable law in life - in a gentleman's toilet, incoming traffic has the right of way.

The significant chemicals of living tissue are rickety and unstable, which is exactly what is needed for life.

Im in the public eye. I know Im not going to be treated like a normal person walking down the street.

I've always been a fan of science fiction. My family, we all used to watch 'Star Trek' together, which is kind of a nerdy family activity.

I think the most privacy I had was when the game was going on.

He thought what a fine thing it was that people made music all over the world, even in the strangest settings – probably even on polar expeditions.