When you have the goods, you don't need to dress up what you're writing.

Children love to be alone because alone is where they know themselves, and where they dream.

The problem with death is absence

The God worth worshipping is the one who pays us the compliment of self - regulation, and we might return it by minding our own business.

A library should be like a pair of open arms.

Slum kids die slowly, their lives eroded at so languid a pace that even they would have trouble tracing the disintegration. To the children of war death explodes like a car bomb.

If you need three adjectives to describe something, then you've probably chosen the wrong something.

The only reason I wanted 'Making Toast' as the title is that it is a simple gesture of moving on. Every morning there's the bread and you make the toast and you start the day.

Friends are lights in winter; the older the friend, the brighter the light.

The belief in potential human virtue underlies the whole idea of the Bill of Rights; the document is a very tough guardian of that belief.

Only by moving in the direction you least trust can you be saved

You don't need fancy highbrow traditions or money to really learn. You just need people with the desire to better themselves.

I can run sub-10 any time but I'm just not ready.

Flesh eating is unprovoked murder.

Art isn't just paint and music, art is breaking glass and the sounds we make without realizing.

How does he do it? Live. With the fear of death every day. I don't fear death as much as I fear the thought of living.

I like to do films that celebrate life.

Science is the most reliable guide for civilization, for life, for success in the world. Searching a guide other than the science is meaning carelessness, ignorance and heresy.

I deplore the tendency, in some institutions, to go directly toward training for a trade or profession or something and ignoring the liberal arts. It is the foundation of education.

Anyone can criticize or accept praise, but initiating a positive exchange is a hallmark of a difference maker.

What are Raphael's Madonnas but the shadow of a mother's love, fixed in permanent outline forever?