There is no learning without mistakes

Perhaps the hardest lesson of all is that there is no such thing as 'getting it right'-least of all with the promulgation of quality.

If you are a middle manager avid to begin a quality initiative in a company ruled by an executive from the old school, look elsewhere for a job.

We don’t get to choose what happens to us—but we always get to choose how we react to it.

His kisses tapped into deep mines of memory, and the years that had separated us fell away as if they were nothing.

I've always really been a romantic at heart, and I have always wanted kids, and I think the idea of sharing your life with the right person is amazing, actually.

All nature mourns, the skies relent in showers; hushed are the birds, and closed the drooping flowers.

The greatest curse that pervaded the university is apathy.

If we get used to life that is the crime.

To arrange a library is to practice in a quiet and modest way the art of criticism.

In Los Angeles, everything is 100 percent organic, except the people.

Live your life, experience something, and then you're going to have a lot of things to say. But if you hang around in Hollywood, then you're going to say the same thing as everyone else - nothing.

Nothing, absolutely nothing, enters my life that isn't caused or allowed by God and filtered first through His loving hands for the purpose of making me more like Jesus.