What you are is a question only you can answer.

When you can't do something truly useful, you tend to vent the pent up energy in something useless but available, like snappy dressing.

The dead cannot cry out for justice. It is a duty of the living to do so for them.

Some prices are just too high, no matter how much you may want the prize. The one thing you can't trade for your heart's desire is your heart.

War is not its own end, except in some catastrophic slide into absolute damnation.

What you are is a question only you can answer.

Escapist literature gets a bad rap. But I think escape is important for a lot of people in a lot of places.

For me, writing is more a process of discovering the book than planning it.

I began my writing career in a very isolated place and time.

I spent my 20s working in patient care at a large university hospital, an experience that has informed all my work and has given me a lot of human observation to draw on.

I think 99 percent of women's lib comes from technology making different kinds of lives possible, and then the social adjustment follows the technology - it doesn't precede it.

I'm very interested in the impact of biotechnology on the way people live.

Seems like half my anxiety dreams are about airports.

Wikipedia is so dangerous.

Aim high. You may still miss the target, but at least you won't shoot your foot off.

Good soldiers never pass up a chance to eat or sleep. They never know how much they'll be called on to do before the next chance

A stunning first impression was not the same thing as love at first sight. But surely it was an invitation to consider the matter.

Hunting hawks did not belong in cages no matter how much a man coveted their grace no matter how golden the bars. They were far more beautiful soaring free. Heartbreakingly beautiful.

My home is not a place it is people.

An honor is not diminished for being shared.

Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.

Like integrity, love of life was not a subject to be studied, it was a contagion to be caught. And you had to catch it from someone who had it.

If there's no game, isn't winning a pretty meaningless concept?

Forward momentum only worked as a strategy if one had correctly identified which way was forward.

You go on. You just go on. There's nothing more to it, and there's no trick to make it easier. You just go on.

A tactical retreat is not a bad response to a surprise assault, you know. First you survive. Then you choose your own ground. Then you counterattack.

If you can't be seven feet tall, be seven feet smart.

Good soldiers never pass up a chance to eat or sleep. They never know how much they'll be called on to do before the next chance.

It's a bizarre but wonderful feeling, to arrive dead center of a target you didn't even know you were aiming for.

Aim high. You may still miss the target but at least you won't shoot your foot off.

When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.

Whether you function as welders or inspectors, the laws of physics are implacable lie-detectors. You may fool men. You will never fool the metal.

There are two sides to every question.

You look at the whole Human Rights questions, I happened to be there at just the right time when the country was awakening - this goes to the first question you asked - the whole country was awakening to a hundred years of injustice that hadn't been resolved yet.

So, for example, a country was into recession right after I was sworn in, a dot-com bust had taken place. Then the attacks of September the 11th, and then of course the great financial meltdown in the -the fundamental question facing any presidency is how do you deal with the hand you're dealt?

If not for music, I would probably be a very frustrated scientist. It's one way to answer the question, 'What is the meaning of life?' I feel music answers it better.

Did you hear that? I didn't hear anything. Put that question another way.

If you do not know how to ask the right question, you discover nothing.

The real question isn't whether you love your kids or not, but how well you are able to demonstrate your love and caring so that your children really feel loved.

There is no question that everybody who works in show business is lucky because of the number of people who wish they where working in show business.

A single question can be more influential than a thousand statements.

He said there is 80 of us, ready to come down and the next thing I knew is that Jo Brown dashed in and said your family has already moved and you have to move, the boat is ready to take you out. I didn't have time to ask, even ask a question.

So begins a question which has of late become more and more urgent: what is the relation of aesthetics to politics?

When artists make art, they shouldn't question whether it is permissible to do one thing or another.

There's another issue here - and I have some limits as to what I can say - but there's some real question as to the viability of the chemical masks, the protective gear used by our soldiers.

This is largely the methodology I've used throughout my career - that is, starting with a question as to what might be the properties of a set of compounds that could be invented which were unusual and unpredictable. Many times I've felt a bit like Columbus setting sail.

In mathematics the art of proposing a question must be held of higher value than solving it.

The question is: Where would it get you if something that's a little bit ambiguous in the movie is made clear? It doesn't get you anywhere.

Well, WorldCom's growth exploded in the Clinton years, there's no question, there's no disputing that.