Two great things you can give your children: one is roots, the other is wings.

Within the last three years the amount of classified materials has doubled to 15.6 million decisions to classify documents.

There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings.

There are two lasting bequests we can give our children: one is roots, the other is wings.

Television news is like a lightning flash. It makes a loud noise, lights up everything around it, leaves everything else in darkness and then is suddenly gone.

Two great things you can give your children: one is roots, the other is wings.

There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One is roots; the other, wings.

There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other wings.

There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings

If you want to be a writer, you write. Everybody wants to get published. You gotta play your long game.

Every audience is different, even within the same venue. You have to just make every audience your audience; you can't pre-judge an audience based on the size of the room or the type of room.

Very few athletes get to experience a home Games, and I don't want to pass up the chance.

I consider a day without running a crappy day. When I don't get to run, I am a grump, but some days my schedule just doesn't allow me to.

Message to all you crazed parents desperately hiring tutors and padding your kid's thin resume: Chillax. Attending an elite college is no guarantee of leadership, life success, or earnings potential.

When I was a kid, I loved history because history to me was a big story.

I'm in awe of the universe, but I don't necessarily believe there's an intelligence or agent behind it. I do have a passion for the visual in religious rituals, though, even though they may be completely empty and bereft of substance. The incense is powerful and provocative, whether Buddhist or Catholic.

I don't conquer, I submit.

Information theory began as a bridge from mathematics to electrical engineering and from there to computing.

The travel impulse is mental and physical curiosity. It's a passion. And I can't understand people who don't want to travel.

What I love about my work is the variety and not knowing what's coming next, and being able to embrace something for a period of time and know something new is going to follow.

Learning how to keep track of inventory and cash flow and creating an income statement and a balance sheet are great skills to learn for managing existing businesses.

Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately after they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish.

With the end of the nominating process, American politics leaves logic behind.

People ask, 'How do you work with the other side?' Well, I start by not saying bad things about them.

A person consistently cheating himself only can dupe others

The mass audience doesn't want to see you if you aren't perfect. If you don't look a certain way, if you don't have big pecs and great skin and the perfect eyes. And it's unfortunate, because kids are growing up with body image dysmorphia because not everyone is represented on the screen.

I started playing bluegrass with my family, so there were the G, C and D chords. I was playing a Martin acoustic because that's what Carter Stanley of the Stanley Brothers played. Then I got into the really raw blues of Hound Dog Taylor and started on electric guitar.

Imagine a society in which there were neither rich nor poor. What evils, afflictions, sorrows, disorders, catastrophes, disasters, tribulations, misfortunes, agonies, calamities, despair, desolation and ruin would be unknown to man!

The truth is that anyone, almost anyone, who receives the Nobel Prize has some indirect knowledge of one sort or another that they may be a candidate.

My favourite places on earth are the wild waterways where the forest opens its arms and a silver curve of river folds the traveller into its embrace.

The graphic style itself is influenced by a lot of very layered and detailed comics that I read as a kid, like 'Vagabond' by Takehiko Inoue.

Whether or not I tour forever, I'm not sure. I would love to spend more time living in harmony with nature rather than flying all over the world and contributing to global warming, you know what I mean?

I've always been conscientious and hardworking. I've never wasted time.