Jo shook her head. She wished she had an answer for Claire, but as far as she knew, love would leave its mark. Sometimes it even took the skin right off you.

She did it without thinking--At that moment she was pure Gilly again: red-haired, with fury for blood, perfect aim, and nothing to lose.

A single course of studies for all progressive schools is out of the question it would mean abandoning the fundamental principle of connection with life-experiences.

When you dread getting up in the morning to go somewhere, you are going to the wrong place.

I asked my Greek chorus about this sort of hero: the Underappreciated Personification of Resolve.

Here is an old tradition badly in need of return: You have to earn your way into politics. You should go have a life, build a string of accomplishments, then enter public service....

We love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving.

It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety.

Unless we can be like children, we can't be happy.

I almost wish that there would be something like a simultaneous telecast and all Americans would be forced, forced - at gun point no less - to listen to every David Barton message.

He who treats his friends and enemies alike, has neither love nor justice.

America has its roots in a tradition of risk-taking pioneers. In more conservative Europe, if you fail in business or actually end up going to jail for it, you're finished as a businessman for good.