If there is a god, or hundreds of them, I hope they will forgive me for the harm I may have inflicted on you by telling you exactly what happened.

Whoever said that childhood is the happiest time of your life is a liar, or a fool.

Aryami Bose's home had been closed up for years, inhabited only by books and paintings, but the spectre of thousands of memories imprisoned between its walls still permeated the house.

He was rather clumsy and shy and looked as if he'd spent the last ten years of his life locked up in a library - hardly the kind of man any girl your age dreams of ...

I would have preferred someone else to have been in charge of rescuing this story, but once again life has taught me that my role is to be a witness, not the leading actor.

As he took them in his arms, the crying of the babies permeated the night like a trail of blood calling out to a predator.

Feel the fear and do it anyway.

There are few things more powerful than people united.

You know your heart and soul are stapled to that manuscript, but what we see are the words on the paper

The weather gods are toying with us." - Dr. James Stagg

As Assistant Secretary of the Department of Veterans Affairs, a constant concern for me is having our veterans dragged into partisan politics.

I spend far too much time on eBay buying lamps and upholstery remnants.

There is no glory in otustripping donkeys.

There never was a woman who did not prefer an oblique compliment to a straight truth - if the latter were unflattering.

Kissing a man with a beard is a lot like going to a picnic. You don't mind going through a little bush to get there!

Never bring the problem solving stage into the decision making stage. Otherwise, you surrender yourself to the problem rather than the solution.