Photos sat on the piano and shelves bulged with books, testament to a life well lived.

Myrna could spend happy hours browsing bookcases. She felt if she could just get a good look at a person’s bookcase and their grocery cart, she’d pretty much know who they were.

Life is change. If you aren't growing and evolving, you're standing still, and the rest of the world is surging ahead.

I've been treating you with courtesy and respect because that's the way I choose to treat everyone. But never, ever mistake kindness with weakness.

In order to be happy, every person must have: 1. Something meaningful to do. 2. Someone to love. (Friends and family and pets all count.) 3. Something to look forward to. It's really that simple.

It's with bad sentiments that one makes good novels.

All a writer's characters are imaginary, no matter whether they are based on real people or not. They are people as one imagines them to be.

Actually, the New Deal's central dedication was to business recovery rather than social reform.

Calls to ban Muslims from entering the US are offensive and unconstitutional.

One goal of ethical inquiry might be to uncover strategies available for use when values conflict or when rules are incomplete.

Rhythm and harmony enter most powerfully into the inner most part of the soul and lay forcible hands upon it, bearing grace with them, so making graceful him who is rightly trained.

I am comfortable at the height where destiny has put me.

Nice little town, Albany. They've got a State Capitol there, you know.

There's always someone willing to believe malicious rumours.