The real desk isn't one with four legs and a filing cabinet. It's the space of time that you stake out every day and the will with which you defend it.
Difficult as it often is to grasp someone else's pain, it is easy to judge another's behavior.
in the context of loss, each child is an only to her or his parents. Human relationships do not fill in for, do not substitute for, do not replace each other.
Dead metaphors make strong idols.
In scientific work, those who refuse to go beyond fact rarely get as far as fact.
It is not defeat that destroys you,it is being demoralized by defeat that destroy you.
If you think about it, an unfair society is a society that makes it possible for you to exploit your abilities to the limit.
People say to me all the time, "I get my news from your show. " And that isn't the way they should get their news. But the choice is not between getting their news the right way and getting their news from my show. The choice is that they won't get any at all unless you give it to them in an entertaining package.