Words sing. They hurt. They teach. They sanctify. They were man's first, immeasurable feat of magic. They liberated us from ignorance and our barbarous past.

The first printed mention of bagels... is to be found in the Community Regulations of Kracow, Poland, for the year 1610 which stated that bagels would be given as a gift to any woman in childbirth.

We see things as we are, not as they are.

I learned that it is the weak who are cruel, and that gentleness is to be expected only from the strong.

What's green, hangs on a wall and whistles? [A Herring]

Money can't buy happiness, but neither can poverty.

The purpose of life is to matter, to be productive, to have it make a difference that you lived at all-using the talents that God has given you for the betterment of others.

The purpose of life is not to be happy, the purpose of life is to matter.

I sometimes think there is a dimension beyond the four of experience and Einstein: insight, that fifth dimension which promises to liberate us from bondage to the long, imperfect past

A conservative is one who admires radicals centuries after they're dead.

If at first you don't succeed, before you try again, stop to figure out what you did wrong.

We're all latchkey kids a threshold from peace.

We are not so different, and yet we are worlds apart." Ahkeel/Akil, The Veil Series prequel.

The world would have been a better place if some men had just shut their mouths.

Genius is nothing more nor less than childhood recaptured at will.

Republics end through luxury; monarchies through poverty.

The success of every single woman is the inspiration for another.

Hear only the things you should hear - be deaf to others.

Be on guard, my soul, of complicating your environment so that you have neither time nor room for growth!

Never fall out of love with life

What motivates me is everything that I have been a small part of.