After all, 'I've been thinking' meant she had previously identified the parameters and analyzed all the branching considerations.

Her pulse raced, pounding in her ears above the howling wind. A wave of dizziness crashed over her with the rapid flood of adrenaline. She gasped in a breath. “Don’t let go.

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

I wouldn't be your best and most marvelous friend in the galaxy if I didn’t point out there might be a few negative consequences from all…” she gazed upward and twirled her hand in the air “…this.

That excuse only works until you discover the person is merely an individual like any other.

Alexis, please mind your mouth. Cursing in Russian is still cursing.

In sum, every pore of his being oozed one thing…okay, FINE. Every pore oozed two things. The first was irrelevant. The second was dangerous.

They sit in their soundproof rooms and issue tone-deaf edicts and call themselves controlling the world. And one day they ask you to die for them.

Be wary of people who go out of their way in charity. They're usually compensating for some evil they're trying to erase.

My desire to be a physician had a lot to do with that sense of medicine as a ministry of healing, not just a science. And not even just a science and an art, but also a calling, also a ministry.

Management means the development of people, not the direction of things.

I am a registered Democrat who is determined to return my party to the proletarian principles of the Franklin D. Roosevelt era.

The truth is that I'm never sure how any of my books will be received, and because I can be thin-skinned, I try not to read too many reviews when a book first comes out.

[Would] a sensible man spit out the juicy morsel that good fortune put in his mouth?

How can someone so wonderful do something so terrible?

An artist can accomplish anything provided he doesn't accept facts or defeat for more than a few minutes.

I don't care whether I succeed or whether I fail as long as I am trying. I hope that I succeed.

Everyone's mind wanders, without doubt, and we always have to start over. Everyone resists or dislikes the thought of or is too tired to meditate at times, and we have to be able to begin again.