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.

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.

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

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

Religion without humanity is a poor human stuff.

Many states rely on sales tax as their principle source of revenue and do not have a State income tax.

It is feeling that sets a man thinking, and not thought that sets him feeling.

Truth is not the enemy and whatever does not kill us, sets us free.

You have to stay one level above everyone else.

Since you got here by not thinking, it seems reasonable to expect that, in order to get out, you must start thinking.

Let's fight against corruption for a better India

In the knockout tournaments, it's futile to prepare for a grand finale. You may have worked out many strategies for the final. But you may lose in the first round itself.

A man or woman is seldom happy unless he or she is sustaining him or herself and making a contribution to others.