My father always told me, 'Don't waste energy worrying about things you can't control. Spend your energy focusing on solutions'.

[Charles ] Kushner engaged in a conspiracy, with co-conspirators, to hire prostitutes to entice witnesses who were cooperating with the federal investigation.

I ran my own business when I was 19, buying condos and renovating apartment buildings.

The only things that are really permanent are love, family, friendship, and that is a lesson. At the end of the day, that's really what it boils down to. The rest of it is just stuff.

I think Jared [Kushner] is an unusually polished person.

I think, as everyone knows, Charles Kushner is one of the most successful businessmen in the United States and one of the great philanthropists of this century.

Every Observer writer wants to be a novelist.

New York City is the most important location in the world... it is the center for fashion, culture and finance.

When I think back kind of on starting my career, the last place I thought I would be would be spending a lot of time in Brooklyn.

Age is a convenient barometer of what a person is capable of, but it is only one.

Browseability is the key online.

Now, " said Brandons low, cold voice. "Lets not be rude eve.

A professional headshot in front of a bookshelf says you're an intellectual. A professional headshot peeking though a bookshelf says you're probably under a restraining order.

When it comes to betting on yourself ... you're a chicken-livered coward if you hesitate.

If we were to wipe out insects alone on this planet, the rest of life and humanity with it would mostly disappear from the land. Within a few months.

The man who attracts luck carries with him the magnet of preparation.

It is from the graves and ruins and rubbish-heaps of Egypt that writings have been restored to us in great numbers.

I do love the young adult novels as a form and genre, because it has a purity of intention and heart.

I have learned some things. Modern life is warfare without end: take no prisoners, leave no wounded, eat the dead--that's environmentally sound.

It is better to be famous than notorious, but better to be notorious than obscure.

Throughout history the exemplary teacher has never been just an instructor in a subject; he is nearly always its living advertisement.