she delighted in being of the same substance as them, and in knowing that when she died her flesh would nourish other lives as they had nourished her.

True education flowers at the point when delight falls in love with responsibility.

You cannot change what you are, only what you do.

That's the duty of the old, to be anxious on behalf of the young. And the duty of the young is to scorn the anxiety of the old.

After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world.

One curious thing about growing up is that you don't only move forward in time; you move backwards as well, as pieces of your parents' and grandparents' lives come to you.

We don't need lists of rights and wrongs, tables of do's and don'ts: we need books, time, and silence. Thou shalt not is soon forgotten, but Once upon a time lasts forever.

I stopped believing there was a power of good and a power of evil that were outside us. And I came to believe that good and evil are names for what people do, not for what they are.

If you want something you can have it, but only if you want everything that goes with it, including all the hard work and the despair, and only if you're willing to risk failure.

Read like a butterfly, write like a bee.

Just finished 'Secrecy' - truly enthralling both as a love story and as a tale of suspense - but much more than both.

There are certain records that you love because the songs are great, but you don't go to them as an example of great production.

Leadership comes by the example you set through your work. It begins from the way you are perceived as a worker and the respect that comes with it.

It's not my fault if the media and the public are more interested in Tiger Woods than in women farm workers.

I do love these ancient ruins. We never tread upon them but we set Our foot upon some reverend history.

Happiness is the most important thing in the world, without it, you live a life of depression.

If you're not confident in the authority of the Scriptures, you will be a slave to what sounds right.

People are dying who haven't had that opportunity to say yes to the Lord.

An organisation can only carry out its mandate if there is discipline, and where there is no discipline there can be no real progress

There are pilots and there are pilots; with the good ones, it is inborn. You can't teach it. If you are a fighter pilot, you have to be willing to take risks.

My closest friends in the league are Dirk Nowitzki and Rex Chapman. Although I think Michael Finley and I will be friends forever.