When I am getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say.

Good books don't give up all their secrets at once.

Stephen King

My readers have to work with me to create the experience. They have to bring their imaginations to the story. No one sees a book in the same way, no one sees the characters the same way. As a reader you imagine them in your own mind. So, together, as author and reader, we have both created the story.

J.K. Rowling

People come into your life and people leave it... you just have to trust that life has a road mapped out for you.

Orlando Bloom

In the transmission of human culture, people always attempt to replicate, to pass on to the next generation the skills and values of the parents, but the attempt always fails because cultural transmission is geared to learning, not DNA.

Gregory Bateson

A foolish faith in authority is the worst enemy of truth.

Albert Einstein

My philosophy all my life has been the pursuit of excellence.

John Kluge

The formal scientific definition of theory is quite different from the everyday meaning of the word. It refers to a comprehensive explanation of some aspect of nature that is supported by a vast body of evidence.

National Academy of Sciences

The motto should not be: Forgive one another; rather understand one another.

Emma Goldman

In order not to pour out a vessel full of water, you should hold it evenly. In order to have a razor sharp, you should sharpen it. The same should happen with your soul if you are looking for real goodness.

Leo Tolstoy

As man sows, so shall he reap. In works of fiction, such men are sometimes converted. More often, in real life, they do not change their natures until they are converted into dust.

Charles W. Chesnutt

Drive for show, but putt for dough.

Bobby Locke

Imagination has rules, but we can only guess what they are.

Mason Cooley