Is there something we have forgotten? Some precious thing we have lost, wandering in strange lands?

Is there something we have forgotten? Some precious thing we have lost, wandering in strange lands?

Let us keep the dance of rain our fathers kept and tread our dreams beneath the jungle sky.

Yet would we die as some have done, beating a way for the rising sun.

How dare anyone, parent, schoolteacher, or merely literary critic, tell me not to act colored.

Early to bed, early to rise, work like hell, and advertise.

Once we know of atrocities we cannot remain silent, and knowledge inevitably leads to an urge to protect the innocent.

I go all around London advocating lesbian and gay rights.

What people say what people do and what they say they do are entirely different things.

Many ribosomes act simultaneously along the mRNA, forming superstructures called polysomes.

The San Gabriel Valley, stretching from Pasadena to Pomona, is especially starved for open space. The valley has a rich array of ethnically diverse communities, but it also has some of the highest rates of childhood obesity and diabetes in the state.

While I was in high school, I started working professionally and got an agent.

I love both sports, but the deciding factor was, being a left-handed pitcher, I had a huge advantage in baseball because of that, and I didn't have that type of advantage in hockey.

The truth is you only have yourself to offer. And when you come to that realization, it's terrifying, because you think it's probably not enough.

God asks no man whether he will accept life. That is not the choice. He must accept it. The only choice is how.

Remember, it's better to be a has-been than a never-was.

The worst manifestations of exhaustion were successfully cured by a long period of rest but it was immediately apparent to me that I had lost once and for all my former capacity for carrying out experimental work until physically tired.

In the past, my voice was my enemy.

My pain may be the reason for somebody's laugh. But my laugh must never be the reason for somebody's pain.

I knew, regardless of anything else, singing in front of an orchestra was going to be inspirational. It would feed me.

No marathon gets easier later. The half way point only marks the end of the beginning.

The way to become famous fast is to throw a brick at someone who is famous.

I just go back to my roots. I was literally born 26 miles from Martinsville High School where Coach Wooden grew up, and then my dad coached there for four years.

If you want to write the next great novel, but you think, No, this won't work because no one will buy it or it won't be any good, then you talk yourself out of taking a risk.

I can literally count on one hand how many slave stories have gotten notoriety over the past few years.

Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain.

Once you get over that peak of puberty, you hit a nice stride.

For every mountain there is a miracle.

If your life had lyrics, would they be any good?