Every man is a hero if he strives more for others than for himself alone.

In the race of men is much greed and envy; but of truth, little.

He was a great poet" They lamented. No, he was not a great poet," said Theo, "He was a good poet, he could have been better. That's the real loss don't you see?

Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding it.

If I do find pride, I'll not find it in what I was or what I am, but what I may become. Not in my birth, but in myself.

I'm convinced that imagination is at the heart of everything we do - in art, science, even astrophysics and higher mathematics. Imagination leads us to ask, "What if?"

Favorite books and authors while growing up - I'd need a book to list them all. For the sake of brevity: Shakespeare, Dickens, Mark Twain, Victor Hugo, world's mythology, the Arthurian legends. And the unabridged dictionary. And they're still my favorites. They get better each time I read them.