We all have a lot more to read than we can read and a lot more to do than we can do.

The greatest gift you can give anyone is your undivided attention.

If I'd waited until I was well rested to read, I never would have read anything.

Reading isn't the opposite of doing, it's the opposite of dying.

You don't have to have one emotion at a time.

I was learning that when you're with someone who is dying, you may need to celebrate the past, live the present, and mourn the future all at the same time.

We’re all in the end-of-our-life book club, whether we acknowledge it or not; each book we read may well be the last, each conversation the final one.

You can truly miss characters. Not like you miss people, but you can still miss them.

That’s one of the things books do. They help us talk. But they also give us something we all can talk about when we don’t want to talk about ourselves.

In an idealized world, we would all be able to do what our English teachers told us to do, which is to write beautiful prose where enthusiasm is conveyed by word choice and grammar.

Evil almost always starts with small cruelties.

Principles in a poor is admirable as politeness in a prince.

Alice released a long exhale. "Showtime.

The current relationship between companies and the workforce is like marrying into a dysfunctional family. Only you don't get to escape when the holiday meal is over.

You shall not be afraid to hear bad news. God will strength you.

Every realistic picture represents a choice as to which features of reality should be given prominence; no painting ever captures the whole.

In order for us to solve many big problems around the world, it is in our interest to work with Russia and obtain their cooperation.

Every human being in the human form has limitations.

Too many companies want their brands to reflect some idealised, perfected image of themselves. As a consequence, their brands acquire no texture, no character and no public trust.

Those who pass their lives in foreign travel find they contract many ties of hospitality, but form no friendships.

Film work can be tedious and sort of all over the place, especially when you have a family and you're going off and doing things somewhere else.