Oh, Daja," moaned Jory, "you sound just like my parents." She ran from the schoolroom. "Well, there's no reason to insult me, "muttered Daja, half offended.

Money talks and walks, but it does not bark.

You look as scary as a buttered muffin.

Without patience, magic would be undiscovered - in rushing everything, we would never hear its whisper inside.

Threats are the last resort of a man with no vocabulary.

It's harder to heal than it is to kill.

Waves are the voices of tides. Tides are life.

I myself have noticed my growing resemblance to a daffodil.

Didn't they realize that the only way to change things was to act?

Without reading, we are all without light in the dark, without fire in the cold.

Waves are the voices of tides. Tides are life," murmured Niko. "They bring new food for shore creatures, and take ships out to sea. They are the ocean's pulse, and our own heartbeat.

Jewish history is never simply about the Jews, but always about their relationship with the rest of society.

Hold yourself on your own. A man's job in a romantic dynamic is not to be your butler, bank account or your father.

As a matter of history, the Fourteenth Amendment was not understood to ban segregation on the basis of race.

Just curious. Does the president of the United States have any advice for other teenage boys in America? Wounded warriors, for example . . .

If you really don't know where to start or if you're stuck, start generating random connections and allow your intuition to tell you if one might lead somewhere interesting.

Total ghettoization, because they were in charge of public housing, the local council, and they deliberately located people in a ghetto situation in order to ensure that they maintained control.

The networked world offers the promise that maybe the information technology industry will start to, for the first time in a decade or so, address CEO-level issues.

Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result.

Look at the people you don't love and see them as an exercise for you to open your heart.

If thou art wise, incline to truth; for truth, not the semblance, remains in its place.