I began to look at all events and all things as relevant, an opportunity to take or avoid.

I hid my deepest feelings so well I forgot where I placed them.

My mother said I was a clingy kid until I was about four. I also remember that from the age of eight she and I fought almost every day.

If you can't change your fate, change your attitude.

So sad! This is the saddest part when you lose someone you love- that person keeps changing. And later you wonder, Is this the same person I lost?

I am like a falling star who has finally found her place next to another in a lovely constellation, where we will sparkle in the heavens forever.

Writing is an extreme privilege but it's also a gift. It's a gift to yourself and it's a gift of giving a story to someone.

I was six when my mother taught me the art of invisible strength..."strongest wind cannot be seen."

How can you blame a person for his fears and weaknesses unless you have felt the same and done differently?

Libraries are the pride of the city.

Who knows where inspiration comes from. Perhaps it arises from desperation. Perhaps it comes from the flukes of the universe, the kindness of the muses.

So I am living without fats, without meat, without fish, but am feeling quite well this way. It always seems to me that man was not born to be a carnivore.

Every generation reinvents the wheel - and in the process it often adds to rather than subtracts from a woman's burdens.

I still think Ned Beatty should've played Don Corleone.

The programmers of tomorrow are the wizards of the future.

I don't think teachers read the textbooks. And I don't think adoption committees read the textbooks before they adopt them. I think they look at them.

This moment is your portal to the future. Use it wisely!

For most of the early hires you make in a startup, experience doesn't matter very much, and you should go for aptitude.

The thing that kills startups at some level, is the founders giving up.

I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it.

The chain of habit coils itself around the heart like a serpent, to gnaw and stifle it.