We don't just come from the womb bearing our talents. They grow from all the things we learn.

The question to ask is what will satisfy you? What will bring you peace? And perhaps the answer to those is in asking yourself when you were last happy.

Despite his money and his looks and all the good-on-paper attributes he possessed, he was not a reader, and, well, let's just say that is the sort of nonsense up with which we will not put.

Instead, we'd do what we always did, the only thing we'd ever been dependably stellar at: we'd read.

Cordy slept late, awakening only when the noises of the house and the insistent sunlight became to obvious to be believably incorporated into her dreams any longer.

I have loved this disaster of a library since I was old enough to read.

Bean felt a rush of sweet nostalgia for the woman who had introduced us to E. Nesbit and Edward Eager and Laura Ingalls Wilder...

she wondered how she could have spent all that money and have nothing but clothes and accessories and a long list of men she never wanted to see again to show for it

You write for the people in high school who ignored you. We all do.

The true call of liberation of women is not in taking off their clothes, but taking off their prejudices.

Fate, " Bizzy said, "adjusts quicker 'n a hungery dog can lick a dish.

New polls show that Obama is now pulling away from Mitt Romney. And, of course, what could be more natural than to see Mitt Romney and pull away?

We continue to experience a steep growth curve and positive response from customers that are aggressively transitioning their procurement processes to leverage our technologies' benefits.

There ought to be more scrupulous honesty in big business men than in any other human relation. For big business requires teamwork on a gigantic scale.

You don't hire for skills, you hire for attitude. You can always teach skills.

What can they suffer that do not fear to die?

International alliances reduce the cost of developing cars significantly.

Everyone has secrets. It's just a matter of finding out what they are