It may be the rooster that does all the crowing but it's the hen that delivers the goods..

Success does not come to the most righteous and rigorously disciplined but to those who continue running..

It does not matter how many talents we have, what matters is how we use them..

I'm a character actor, so I don't take the hit if the movie's bad, the lead does. So, I don't want to be the lead. He takes the hit, I don't..

God does say He will graciously entertain our prayers. He says that if we exercise faith, and if our request is in accordance with His will, He will ….

The system doesn't have to be pure, but it does have to work..

The favor of princes does not preclude the existence of merit, and yet does not prove that it exists. [Fr., La faveur des princes n'exclut pas le mer….

Yes, Maxon," I whispered. "It’s possible..

One-newspaper towns are not good because all the surviving newspaper does is print money. They make 25 percent on their money every year, and if they….

The breath of the flute player: does it belong to the flute?.

Because feeling love does make you feel superior. Until you find out you aren't loved back..

You teach combat, I guess.” Aphros threw up his hands in exasperation. “Why does everyone assume that?” Leo glanced at the massive sword on the fish-….

A nation's budget is full of moral implications; it tells what a society cares about and what it does not care about; it tells what its values are..

I am Jewish, but Beethoven is my religion..

What America does best is to understand itself. What it does worst is to understand others..

After all, it is we who adapt to the machine. The machine does not adapt to us..

When microorganisms die, they make oil; when huge timbers fall, they make coal. But everything here was pure, unadulterated rubbish that didn't make ….

My grandmother certainly does not care for celebrity..

Why are we ignoring the oceans? Why does NASA spend in one year what NOAA will spend in 1600 years? Why are we looking up? Why are we afraid of the o….

Somebody does somethin' stupid, that's human. They don't stop when they see it's wrong, that's a fool..

Art does not explain..