Greatness and nearsightedness are incompatible. Meaningful achievement depends on lifting one's sights and pushing toward the horizon.

The monkeys solved the puzzle simply because they found it gratifying to solve puzzles. They enjoyed it. The joy of the task was its own reward.

Dan Ariely, author of Predictably Irrational, a book that offers an entertaining and engaging overview of behavioral economics.

In being everything for everyone, when am I anything for myself?

Feel it, deal with it, then throw it away

Always a trade. Always a compromise. Until there wasn't anything left to bargain with, because neither one us had any clue what to do.

The fair request ought to be followed by the deed in silence.

I was the girl he had chosen to kiss. He wanted, somehow to set me free. He didn't want to burn my photo or toss it away, but he didn't want to look at me anymore, either.

The story being told in Star Wars is a classic one. Every few hundred years, the story is retold because we have a tendency to do the same things over and over again.

There is a lot of scepticism today as to whether memoir is real. But when fiction is done at a certain level there is scepticism as to whether it is really fiction.

We don't fall in love and then get married; instead we get married and then learn what love requires.

I know a lot less about God, but the things I know about God, I know a whole lot more, for sure.

It is an encouraging observation that no good measure was ever proposed which, if duly pursued, failed to prevail in the end.