"You can learn great things from your mistakes when you aren’t busy denying them."

“I always thought 'chick lit' meant third-person contemporary funny novels, dealing with issues of the day. I mean, it's not the ideal term; when I'm asked to describe what I do, I say I write romantic comedies, cause that's what I feel they are. But I'm quite pragmatic.”

“Intelligence is the handmaiden of flexibility and change.”

Source : Vernor Vinge (2010). “A Fire Upon The Deep”, p.72, Macmillan

“I want to be a Christian like Christ - loving and accepting of other people.”

“It can not be emphasized too strongly or too often that this great nation was founded, not by religionists, but by Christians, not on religions, but on the gospel of Jesus Christ!”

“Anybody can change, but they have to want to change.”

Source : Marshall Goldsmith (2010). “What Got You Here Won't Get You There: How successful people become even more successful”, p.134, Profile Books

“I think personal actions definitely matter. I think collectively they can make a big difference. But I also think that people don't live in a vacuum.”

Source : Source: www.motherjones.com

“The investigation of making is illuminating towards that moment rather than the other way around, a reversal of the way that I would approach making a painting before. I think that it gets to a richer illumination of the moment, which is what I was trying to do at the beginning but going about it a little backwards.”

“I was always able to throw-it's not something I consciously worked on.”