The fact that people are already reading and loving something I wrote is still hard to believe.
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.
I became a millionaire overnight by signing a piece of paper. I made more money in that one second than my entire family did in their lifetime.
I've never set a book in Europe. I've lived in Europe three times, but somehow or other it wasn't the experience that engaged me in that way.
There is an isolated experience to being a director. It's very communal because there's a crew, but it's only you. You're the one on the hook.
Lyrical poets have to be in touch with visceral experience. I've always tried to avoid virtual experiences. That's emerging in my fiction.
I went to jail 44 times. I've been beaten and left for dead on the side of the road fighting for freedom... Yet Rosa Parks is better known in history than Ralph David Abernathy. Why is that?
Failure is central to engineering. Every single calculation that an engineer makes is a failure calculation. Successful engineering is all about understanding how things break or fail.
You accept failure as a possible outcome of some of the experiments. If you don't get failures, you're not pushing hard enough on the objectives.
You have to risk failure to succeed. The important thing is not to make one single mistake that will jeopardize the future.
Happy is said to be the family which can eat onions together. They are, for the time being, separate, from the world, and have a harmony of aspiration.
When I retired in 2002 I had retired to stay home with my family and didn't necessarily think my playing days were over.
When I was a child, on Sunday mornings the family would assemble around the blue-leather-covered gramophone to listen to records.
Your example should be stellar among your friends, associates, family, teachers, co-workers, and other Christians.
A family is too frail a vessel to contain the risks of all the warring impulses expressed when such a group meets on common ground.
People want to go out and travel around and meet cool people. I could just go live in Vermont, but is that what I really want?
Journalism's ultimate purpose is to inform the reader, to bring him each day a letter from home and never to permit the serving of special interests.
Then in my early teens, when the home computer bubble was blowing, I had one of the first, an Acorn Atom, and used to write primitive adventures on that.
I can't spend a lot of time worrying about the numbers at home. I've got to focus on the mission.
The secular world looks to the church and to its chagrin, finds no love, no life, no laughter, no hope and no happiness.
I went to my first dinosaur hall with my father and twin brother. We went to the American Museum of Natural History, and I was blown away by the dinosaurs.
