Risks must balance rewards.

Leaders lead by example. No leader asks more than he is prepared to give himself.

Life at the edge of the world, it was felt, could go on forever.

Trust is what monetizes the attention economy.

Never put yourself in a position to be made an example of.

Smiles are a funny thingand laughter is hilarious.I smile sometimeswhen I am delirious.

I CAN'T GO ON! I FEEL LIKE NONE OF MY EMOTIONAL WOUNDS CAN HEAL! AS SOON AS IT TRIES TO HEAL, IT SHATTERS AGAIN! I CAN'T HEAL!

Fate is a funny character. She puts obstacles in your path to see what character ye have. Life isn't fair, life is a test.

Some may still deny the overwhelming judgment of science, but none can avoid the devastating impact of raging fires, and crippling drought, and more powerful storms.

Billy Ray Cyrus does not smoke. Michael Bolton doesn't...Paula Abdul doesn't...there does seem to be a pattern.

As a mother, I always have something better to be doing. I love work still, but I'm less tolerant of my time being wasted.

The most uninteresting part of the biography of a composer is his childhood. All those preludes are the same and the reader hurries on to the fugue.

Writer or painter god-parents are notoriously unreliable. That is, there is certain before long to be a cooling of friendship.

Each life is one short word slowly uttered.