Marcus felt that their beauty was not to be trusted. It was a dangerous beauty

If we let it change us then they will have won

This is not an ending of my choosing. From now on I will choose my own endings

Womanhood... not at all a pretty sight

He had never heard a name for such a person. Did such a hybrid thing even exist?

Promise me that you will not become a politician... promise me you will become a real revolutionary instead.

Choosing instead to step on a landmine and be blown to pieces

We are your family now

If people saw him building a giant pair of silver wings, then they too would believe that they could fly

You cannot break me. You see, I know for certain that my parents were capable of flight

Valentine loved the idea that flight was possible for someone like him. Valentine believed.

This was how they learned their most valuable lesson about death - that after it there is life again, that things that perish will rise again, that after every ending there is another beginning

It is our reality, the way we live now, our truth. So of course we cannot acknowledge it, let alone print it

I'm trying to cut down a little on eating, on sodium, keep my blood pressure down, which is tough. Because I love food! I do, but it's unfair how everything that's bad for you tastes so good, and all the good stuff, veggies and green things, doesn't match up.

If someone said, 'Sit down and write a 'Community' episode,' I would be panicked.

I think music is about our internal life. It's part of the way people touch each other. That's very precious to me. And astronomy is, in a sense, the very opposite thing. Instead of looking inwards, you are looking out, to things beyond our grasp.

It's never easy playing 36 holes when you are concentrating so much for all the shots.

I knew I was the second-best tennis player in the state of Florida and No. 8 in the United States of America when I was 12 years old and I couldn't tell you what I was in baseball, but I liked my chances in tennis of getting a scholarship to college.

Sometimes you don't know why you're doing something. You're intuitively following, to see where it leads.

I won't undertake war until I have tried all the arts and means of peace.

The process of my transformation came to a head with my discovery of St. Francis of Assisi during a pilgrimage I went on with a scout troop from my school.

I tend not to be someone who's on all the time, or is always trying to make other people laugh.

Your nature is the Buddha.

While I've worked on many topics and written many books, I have not abandoned my interest in multiple intelligences.

Israel needs to change direction, and this is not just political. We're becoming more closed-in, more isolated, more scared. Those who talk tough are making the State of Israel very weak, very isolated - very Jewish, in the Diaspora-sense, in that 'everyone is against us.' We need to get out of this.

If fate means you to lose, give him a good fight anyhow.

Every little girl wanted to be Natalie Wood, as did I.

I speak to you only as an American who happens to be an American Negro and one who is proud of that heritage. We ask for nothing special. We ask only that we be permitted to compete on an even basis, and if we are not worthy, then the competition shall, per se, eliminate us.

The 112th Congress passed only 220 laws, the lowest number enacted by any Congress. In 1948, when President Truman called the 80th Congress a 'Do-Nothing' Congress, it had passed more than 900 laws.

It's tragic when people think feminism is a dirty word.

Not being busy is something I worry about, but I think work begets work.

My latter schooldays and my university days were during the war, when science - physics, in particular - was a very important and glamorous subject. A lot of us felt that if we couldn't get into science, we might try engineering or medicine.

That past which is so presumptuously brought forward as a precedent for the present, was itself founded on some past that went before it.

To force a man to pay for the violation of his own liberty is indeed an addition of insult to injury.

Most people end up owning a business by accident. Therefore, they don't usually have a thought process and a strategic plan in place.

Countries are well cultivated, not as they are fertile, but as they are free.

You know, now it's sinking in. It's taken me a long time to realize - and it is sinking in - how important this book is. And I have a certain distance now. I've done it such a long time ago.