Most of us have a soundtrack running in the background of our lives. I access that soundtrack when I write.

No Ads! No Games! No Gimmicks!

Brian Acton

Science and religion are the two most powerful forces in the world. Having them at odds... is not productive.

E. O. Wilson

When you explain to people what you're trying to do, as opposed to just making demands or delegating tasks, you can build instant trust, even if it's just for that short time you're on the phone.

Simon Sinek

Man, as long as he lives, is immortal. One minute before his death he shall be immortal. But one minute later, God wins.

Elie Wiesel

Maybe he's growing up. Or maybe he just needed the right circumstances to discover the best in himself.

Orson Scott Card

No one is rich whose expenditures exceed his means, and no one is poor whose incomings exceed his outgoings.

Thomas C. Haliburton

It's no mystery why many of us in the media can't get enough of the fabricators Jayson Blair and Stephen Glass, the latter of whom concocted more than a score of bogus feature stories for the New Republic (and who wrote for other magazines, including this one, once) in the mid-1990s. Anyone--journalist, student, academic--who has ever stared at a blank screen, their brains grinding emptiness, and thought, How can I fill this hole? knows that in those desperate moments before a deadline, almost anyone can do almost anything: make stuff up, plagiarize, scribble senseless half-truths.

David Edelstein, "Slate magazine

You never understand anybody that loves you.

Ernest Hemingway

A lot of me is very up, and you have to have light and shade. They are both important and you have to be able to balance them. You have to admit that sadness is part of you and that it enriches you. I use it in my work.

Imelda Staunton

I think positive. I always think we're going to score. Two minutes is a lot of time if you have timeouts and you're throwing every down. You have to make the right decisions. I've always had great receivers, which helps. It's not just me doing it.

Dan Marino

Like everything else in nature, music is a becoming, and it becomes its full self, when its sounds and laws are used by intelligent man for the production of harmony, and so made the vehicle of emotion and thought.

Theodore Mungers

In an era ruled by materialism and unstable geopolitics, art must be restored to the center of public education.

Camille Paglia