Thirteen, 13 children, and I love - I love them all. And I think I've been a good father to all of them.

When you walk out of your house in the morning, you don't know what you're going to see.

Kyle Chandler

A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.

Italo Calvino

Set priorities for your goals. A major part of successful living lies in the ability to put first things first. Indeed, the reason most major goals are not achieved is that we spend our time doing second things first.

Robert J. Mckain

What's interesting about books that take place in the future, even twenty years in the future, is that many of them are black or white: It's either a utopia or it's misery. The real truth is that there's going to be both things in any future, just like there is now.

Albert Brooks

Now I wantSpirits to enforce, art to enchant;And my ending is despair,Unless I be relieved by prayer

William Shakespeare

No one was going to stop me from writing and no one had to really guide me towards science fiction. It was natural, really, that I would take that interest.

Octavia Butler

I never Tweet about my daughter. Never. I just want to be respectful of her privacy. My job as a mom is to know when to open my mouth and when not to.

Padma Lakshmi

Has fortune dealt you some bad cards. Then let wisdom make you a good gamester.

Francis Quarles

I come from a very non-accepting family, but I'm very accepting.

Katy Perry

All resistance bears within it the seeds of growth, experience, and wisdom.

Steve Maraboli

Anger is a good motivator.

James Dyson

The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was: 'If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?' But... the good Samaritan reversed the question: 'If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?'

Martin Luther King, Jr.