I'm not going to do it again, " Lena Marquez whispered to the red purse across the hall from her nestle of blankets. "Never again.

Before her parents were killed, Lena hadn't minded school. She had even liked some of her classes. Now school was just watching the clock tick.

A faithful friend is a strong defense

You have your world to rebuild, and I have mine.

In fine, that it is not enough to be good, without behaving in such a manner as shall make others acknowledge us to be so.

In every argument there is a discovery of truth and a bed of success.

Time and tide and the ravages of sin take their toll on the most noble achievements of man.

Routine is the god of every social system it is the seventh heaven of business the essential component in the success of every factory the ideal of every statesman.

I've never read a book on shape. I've read books on gesture; I've read tons of books on color, surface, field, ground, representation, abstraction. But I've never read a book on what a shape is.

It doesn't count if your swing is going the highest if you're getting pushed.

Brave people may be persuaded to an action by representing it as being more dangerous than it really is.

Go ahead: Live with abandon. Be outrageous at any age. What are you saving your best self for?