Reverse the typical American meal pattern and instead eat like a king for breakfast, a prince for lunch and a pauper for supper.

Real luxury is time and opportunity to read for pleasure

Turn your midlife crisis to your own advantage by making it a time for renewal of your body and mind, rather than stand by helplessly and watch them decline.

Do your homework and keep good files. Know the background and biases of your sources.

[On her father's death:] Gone was the person who had known me better than anyone else on earth and who had loved and admired me unconditionally since the day I was born.

Love was the most susceptible to random failure of all human enterprises.

I say, you look smashing this evening, " Zayne strode over to her, took her arm, and began helping her up the walk, "That is a lovely gown, and what is the color of the hair you're currently sporting?

Without ice cream there would be darkness and chaos.

A Magician is not a Magician because he knows tricks, but because he knows Magic - the principles, the fundamentals.

Sometimes when you push someone, you find out who that person really is.

Of course he was a part of what I hated about myself. Everything was a part of what I hated about myself. It wasn't really personal.

Breastfeeding is amazing; you can actually feel your stomach shrink with every feed.

Stay true to yourself because at the end of the day you can't lie to yourself.

In a true zero-defects approach, there are no unimportant items.

Only bad books have good endings. If a book is any good, it's ending is always bad - because you don't want the book to end.