Miles smiled. "Can you keep a secret?"Bea snorted. "Did I tell you what you were in for if you married my daughter?""No, " Miles conceded."Well, then, " she said, as if that settled the matter.

What if all everybody needed in the world was to be sure of one friend? What if you were the one, and you refused to say those simple words?

You can't possibly judge your ability to control something until you've experienced the extremes of its capabilities. Do you understand?

One of the odd things about middle age...was the strange decisions a man discovers he’s made by not really making them.

To his surprise he...discovered that it was possible to be good at what you had little interest in, just as it had been possible to be bad at something…that you cared about a great deal.

A system is corrupt when it is strictly profit-driven, not driven to serve the best interests of its people, but those of multinational corporations.

We live in Matrix run with rules from the people around us.

It's funny. All you have to do is say something nobody understands and they'll do practically anything you want them to.

Summer is the mother of the poor.

Use your time to bathe yourself in the gift. Move your hand across the canvas. Go to museums. Make this into an obsession.

Women are powerful and dangerous.

I want my foundation built, and I want to be strong enough to deal with everything coming my way.

Riches, rightly used, breed delight.

Call it Nature, Fate, Fortune; all these are names of the one and selfsame God.