You can't just leave out one part; the bread won't rise if the yeast isn't there.

When we make mistakes, say, I'm blessed that I have an opportunity to learn from this.

If you have the guts to keep making mistakes, your wisdom and intelligence leap forward with huge momentum.

Once women are not excluded, I don't think any of us will give a damn what pronouns are used. That wasn't the point.

Why do we kill people who are killing people to show that killing people is wrong?

Leaping away from my mistakes has propelled me forward. It has great force behind it. It makes for great storytelling.

To be always in a state of wonder is a kind of sensitivity that can sometimes be an extraordinary blessing and sometimes a real pain.

I am selfish. I reach for the world I want to live in. And I believe in leaving our best we can do to our children

Music can be used against us as much as it can be used for us. Muzak can put a whole nation to sleep, whereas a lullaby is intended to put a child to sleep in a sweet way.

You just keep feeding hogwash to people, and pretty soon they'll eat it.

We who are interested in relative truth have to keep digging for it and not let ourselves be sucked under.

When a fairy tale ends a new one starts. Close your eyes and say ‘once upon a time’ with me

The 'what should be' never did exist, but people keep trying to live up to it. There is no 'what should be, ' there is only what is.

If I simply do my best, I cannot complain even if I am taken to hell.

What is your name?” I asked.“Thorn.”“Thorn?”“If you touch me, you bleed.

The weight of lies will bring you down, follow you to every town 'cause nothing happens here that doesn't happen there.

To be on the alert is to live to be lulled into security is to die.

She denied none of it aloud, and agreed to none of it in private.

What man has done, man can aspire to do.

Virtue is its own reward.

Taken with the archaeological data, we can say that the old hypothesis of an invasion of people - not merely their language - from the steppe appears to be true.