Only those who are built up can build others up, amen?
You always get more respect when you don't have a happy ending.
Lincoln, steeped in the Bible and Shakespeare, set an impossibly high bar for presidential prose.
Every little bit of peace I bring someone is worth the peace I never had.
'Soul Train' was developed as a radio show on television. It was the radio show that I always wanted and never had.
I live more than anything else to produce the Games.
The second host that I had was an actress I didn't know named Susan St. James.
Anyone who thinks that you become a journalist or broadcaster in order to be a wallflower needs to think again.
The comics were not only stories to enjoy; for me they were drawings that possessed me.
All books should be trilogies; I mean I think we all agree on that.
Everyone wants to write a book. Very few people are able to do it.
Although I write dystopian fiction, I don't believe in dystopian fantasies.
Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win.
Apartheid does not happen spontaneously, like bad weather conditions.
Wonderful teachers should never let themselves be drill sergeants for the state.
You need massive recruitment to tell the poorest of the poor what is possible.
Negative emotions like hatred destroy our peace of mind.
No one can take Jesus away from me. There's no doubt there was a historical figure of tremendous importance, with enormous notions. Such as peace.
I've worked with many large and small publishers, and nearly all of them love the value that Instapaper provides to their readers.
Fortunes made in no time are like shirts made in no time; it's ten to one if they hang long together.
One feels as if it could never, never be less. And yet all griefs, when there is no bitterness in them, are soothed down by time.
