Every family has one living patriarch or matriarch, the final arbiter and repository of ancient family history, and Nicole's Aunt Patti was the last woman standing.

I am remembering it now.

It was as much a battle of wits and words as it was of mitts and swords.

An uncomplicated woman gets complicated when she finally says what she means.

You can speak loudly with deep silence

Power is a thing of perception. They don't need to be able to kill you. They just need you to think they are able to kill you

I have never been a superstar and never believed in it.

Warfare has been marvelously developed. It will soon be impossible to raise it to further heights.

I can just put my head down and train hard.

Apple makes beautiful products. I own a Mac Pro, a Mac Book, a Mac Mini, an iPad, an iPhone, pretty much the entire collection.

Praise has different effects, according to the mind it meets with; it makes a wise man modest, but a fool more arrogant, turning his weak brain giddy.

God, the source of all knowledge, should never have been expelled from our children's classrooms.