I knew it was my time to retire, when I saw Messi running past me.
Advice to young writers? Always the same advice: learn to trust our own judgment.
A simple grateful thought turned heavenwards is the most perfect prayer.
The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.
Whatever you're meant to do, do it now. The conditions are always impossible.
Any human anywhere will blossom in a hundred unexpected talents and capacities simply by being given the opportunity to do so.
Every child has the capacity to be everything.
Really? My people do the same thing.
When intelligent people read, they ask themselves a simple question: What do I plan to do with this information?
If you want it, measure it. If you can't measure it, forget it.
Facts tend to take the punch out of a good hate rant and are therefore left best unsaid.