One must never look for happiness: one meets it by the way.

A nomad I will remain for life, in love with distant and uncharted places.

I am not afraid of death, but would not want to die in some obscure or pointless way.

One must never look for happiness: one meets it by the way.

The farther behind I leave the past, the closer I am to forging my own character.

Baseball just a came as simple as a ball and bat. Yet, as complex as the American spirit it symbolizes. A sport, a business and sometimes almost even a religion.

Selflessness is of its very nature. Self-discipline is its requirement. Prayer opens its reservoir of power.

Donald Trump was not asked by the leadership to change. And there's no reason for him to change. He's just won the primary process with a record number of votes, beating a field of 16 qualified candidates. So, there's no reason for Donald Trump to change.

A killer Cuban restaurant with a giant cigar bar. Have me a Cuban sandwich. That's just like heaven to me. I'm a simple man.

The real purpose of the scientific method is to make sure nature hasn't misled you into thinking you know something you actually don't know.

I can say this: You haven't lived until you've had to wear a triplet pregnancy belly. You would be amazed at what a girl can learn based on the different months of pregnancy to make her character more interesting.

If you relish the sense of independence and self reliance that comes from removing yourself if only briefly from the welter of non essentials that is modern life try backpacking.

In America, for a brief time, people who followed Coltrane were studied and considered important, but it didn't last long. The result is that the kind of music I played in the '60's is completely dismissed in this country as a wrong turn, a suicidal effort.

The West is now closed.

Most Fortune 500 companies began as small start-ups whose entrepreneurial founders slowly developed the infrastructure, hired the staff, sourced manufacturers or built their own factory, and created distribution, sales, and marketing plans.

To be sure, India has achieved enviable success in business services, like the glistening call centers in Bangalore and elsewhere. But in the global jousting for manufacturing jobs, India does not get its share.

I am open, free and joyful.

In looking out into the world, it didn't look all that nice out there. And who were the nice people? Certainly Mahatma Gandhi was.

Most artists lose their voice, their hair, and their bands. That's not going to happen to me.

I've never believed it's a fiction writer's job to create an exact replica of the past, a diorama the reader can step right into. But it is my responsibility to learn everything of the world I'm writing about, to become an expert in the politics and history that formed my characters' identities.

Teachers are sort of faced with a thankless task, because no matter how good they are, unless they find a way to personally rationalize the rewards of their effort, nobody else is really going to do it for them en masse.

Ships don't sink because of the water around them; ships sink because of the water that gets in them. Don't let what's happening around you get inside you and weigh you down.

I am first of all from La Castellane and Marseille.

We haven't been able yet to determine in terms of genes what makes a human being a human and not another mammal.

If you're telling a story, and somebody is going to come out badly, it better be you.

Becoming a dad was the proudest moment of my life. Playing football does not even compare.

When we long for life without difficulties, remind us that oaks grow strong in contrary winds and diamonds are made under pressure.

The more we learn of science, the more we see that its wonderful mysteries are all explained by a few simple laws so connected together and so dependent upon each other, that we see the same mind animating them all.

To read of a detective's daring finesse or ingenious stratagem is a rare joy.