... after you have once ridden behind a motorcycle escort, you are never the same again

I must respect the opinions of others even if I disagree with them.

You can't run a government solely on a business basis...Government should be human. It should have a heart.

They say in death our war is over. I don't believe that.

I’ve always wondered about your name, ” Misha said to Hijja while scraping a bit of space gunk from the window of their spaceship.

A positive MIND is a solid WEAPON.

Once you sell people fear, they'll buy just about anything.

No one who set out to design a form of communication would ever end up with anything like English, Mandarin, or any of the more than six thousand languages spoken today.

We had so much fun together as friends that I suggested we [with Kate DiCamillo] write a book together.

I love macaroni and cheese. I could eat it every meal of the day.

Of course, the EU is not going to fall apart, but at best it will stagnate for the foreseeable future and we will be dealing with quite a lot of internal chaos.

...there is nothing that has been created without some reason, even if human nature is incapable of knowing precisely the reason for them all.

The only thing worse than losing an employee you have trained is keeping an employee you haven't trained.