just as a stool requires three legs to stand upright so the taekwondoist must cultivate basic skills, meaningful forms, and effective sparring in order to have both feet firmly planted in the art

Communication is a possibility. Connecting is an ability. Caring is a decision.

Relational depth often emerges from intentional dialog

Love—such a keen mystery prone to pierce and shatter the delicate heart.  Yet it possesses more strength, power, and influence than any other magic known to man.

There are many things to resist, but disease is not one of them.

But it had been widely argued that advanced intelligence could never arise in the sea

There are three certainties in a writer's life: death, taxes, and rejection letters.

I want to make as much money as I possibly can so that when my day comes, my mother and sister is fine. My close friends are fine. They don't have to worry about anything ever again.

The intensity of vision in the artist and of vividness in his creations are the sole tests of his imaginative power.

In the era of big brains, life stories could end up any which way. Look at mine.

The white cracker who wrote the National Anthem knew what he was doing. He set the word "free" to a note so high nobody could reach it. That was deliberate.