Hope is ambiguous, but fear is precious.

People say: idle curiosity. The one thing that curiosity cannot be is idle.

If at first you don't succeed, before you try again, stop to figure out what you did wrong.

First-rate people hire first-rate people; second-rate people hire third-rate people.

Every writer is a narcissist. This does not mean that he is vain; it only means that he is hopelessly self-absorbed.

O, to be sure, we laugh less and play less and wear uncomfortable disguises like adults, but beneath the costume is the child we always are, whose needs are simple, whose daily life is still best described by fairy tales.

The purpose of life is to matter, to be productive, to have it make a difference that you lived at all-using the talents that God has given you for the betterment of others.