A smooth lecture... may be pleasant; a good teacher challenges, asks, irritates and maintains high standards - all that is generally not pleasant..

Some of the biggest challenges were, page after page, standing naked in front of the reader..

A novel that features real people is complicated, but in the end, that extra challenge is all for the good..

Our challenge is to find the compassion for others that we want them to have for us..

I've seen things, and that's almost the same as doing them..

No one can live with nothing..

I don't ever have time for friends or anything like that..

I've noticed that the more I open up, the more I learn..

Where ever you are be all there.

Whatever power I exert is collegial..

Challenge doesn't come to small people. Challenge comes to great people..

I've been 6 ft. 2 ins. since I was 13..

There are plenty of brilliant people who are too stressed out to read challenging literary novels..

We can always create more inventory. You don't just turn people away. The challenge is finding new ways to accommodate people..

A person who issues that charge that someone adheres to the principle "do as I say, not as I do" has three options: produce an example; withdraw the ….

What's your hurry? There is nothing up ahead that's any better than it is right here..

The direction worth going in isn't up, down, forward, or backward. It's towards. And beyond..

In the gospel, we discover we are far worse off than we thought, and far more loved than we ever dreamed..

Why aren't you dead?" Will demanded..

Can I touch your mango?.

Someone once asked me what was the weirdest question I was ever asked. And I was stymied..