Never refuse an assignment except when there is a conflict of interest, a potential of danger to you or your family, or you hold a strongly biased attitude about the subject under focus.

Red skies at morning, sailors take warning;
Red skies at night, photographers delight.

Where the people fear the government, you have tyranny. Where the government fears the people you have liberty.

War is a series of catastrophes that results in a victory.

Every single thing you've been through in your life has had a purpose.

Worrying is using your imagination to create something you don't want.

Having loving and supporting parents didn't make me feel any better about the possibility of seeing my personal life splashed across newspapers and tabloids.

A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold.

I was gradually coming to have a mysterious and shuddery reverence for this girl; nowadays whenever she pulled out from the station and got her train fairly started on one of those horizonless transcontinental sentences of hers, it was borne in upon me that I was standing in the awful presence of the Mother of the German Language... She had exactly the German way; whatever was in her mind to be delivered, whether a mere remark, or a sermon, or a cyclopedia, or the history of a war, she would get it into a single sentence or die. Whenever the literary German dives into a sentence, that is the last you are going to see of him till he emerges on the other side of his Atlantic with his verb in his mouth.

Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.

Be gentle first with yourself.

Your world is made of your memories, and your memories are given to you by your world. The whispering voice of happenstance is always in our ears. 'This is the world. This is the way things are. Look. Pay attention. Remember.'

It's very hard to take yourself too seriously when you look at the world from outer space.

Through zeal, knowledge is gotten, through lack of zeal, knowledge is lost; let a man who knows this double path of gain and loss thus place himself that knowledge may grow.

Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous patience.

The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.

Every man serves a useful purpose: A miser, for example, makes a wonderful ancestor.

Don't laugh at a youth for his affectations; he is only trying on one face after another to find his own.

It is the province of knowledge to speak and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.

You shall have the good that you bring.