A wedding anniversary is the celebration of love, trust, partnership, tolerance and tenacity. The order varies for any given year.

How can a society that exists on instant mashed potatoes, packaged cake mixes, frozen dinners, and instant cameras teach patience to its young?

You know you’ve read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend.

How often we fail to realize our good fortune in living in a country where happiness is more than a lack of tragedy.

True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.

Adapt what is useful, reject what is useless, and add what is specifically your own.

The comfort of the rich depends upon an abundant supply of the poor.

There is no gap as wide as the one between mediocrity and genius.

The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...'

I think I'm getting better at being verbal. I used to have a lot of problems with it. I had my own little demons that I was fighting, and I used the banjo as an escape.

You can't count on notoriety lasting very long, and there's no way to predict whether anyone will care about your books or you in three years, let alone ten or twenty.

It wouldn't make for sanity would it, living with the devil.

We can do subtle," I assured her. "It's our middle name," Andrea added. For some odd reason Rene didn't look convinced.

After three days without one, the desire to read a newspaper vanished. And really, one was happier without.

But if she'd realized that nine desiccated zombie nymphs would be waiting for her, she never would have come down here.