Hawthorn, white and odorous with blossom, framing the quiet fields, and swaying flowers and grasses, and the hum of bees.

Competition is a painful thing, but it produces great results.

Ambition and thirst for power have a part but greed and greed alone is the reason for a man wanting to swell his ward.

I can't go out on stage and have glow sticks waved at me! That's not representative of anything!

People don't want to be 'marketed to'; they want to be “communicated with.

You're not going to do something for a certain period of your life and be affected by it, and then stop and go work in a grocery store. You understand certain things and your personality changes.

Until suitable alternatives are found, this vital work should continue so that hundreds of millions more lives can be saved in the future

I have followed my ear and my heart, which may be false. I hope not.

I am a fantastic nurse. I discovered this about myself, and Im really fantastic about diagnosing things.

I'm wearing pajamas, every day, at work. It's the best thing, ever!

Many people are angry when they make a mistake, but very few people have the sense to be sorry.

They have been promising us for a long time — in every culture — that they are going to take us to heaven. They promise heaven because they are making a hell out of this place.

Bob Hope, like Mark Twain, had a sense of humor that was uniquely American, and like Twain, we'll likely not see another like him.

Some claim that computers will, by 2050, achieve human capabilities. Of course, in some respects they already have.

My hobbies are cooking and gardening, especially growing orchids. I love soccer, my husband and I support a British team called Chelsea, and I also enjoy tennis. We have 3 cats.

The credit to them, the better team won and there's nothing we can do about that now.

You belong to the earth and the earth is hard.

Most lawyers only tell you about the cases they win. I can tell you about some I lose. A lawyer who wins all his cases does not have many.

It took me ten years to write The Night Journal, so that was a big ordeal.

You can't do nothing but try if you still got it in your heart.

Take No as a question.