She knew with chilling and absolute certainty she was next.

A harvester ant never quits and she never, ever gives up.

Manners must adorn knowledge and smooth its way through the world.

I had written a book that dealt with really serious issues. Was anybody going to want to read a Christmas love story from me?

I wrote about what I was going through at the time.

Nature is, in fact, a suggester of uneasiness, a promoter of pilgrimages and of excursions of the fancy which never come to any satisfactory haven.

Those who do not hope cannot wait; but if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it.

Mysticism is concerned primarily with moving our awareness field from the beginning of the band of perception, the human band, up to the enlightened bands of perception.

I read that book How to Hug a Porcupine [by Julie Ross] - it's my parenting bible. They say you have to trust your children and give them freedom. I say, OK, but this is New York City!

I've always loved children. When I was working with children as a librarian, I loved being with them and working around them.

I try getting in front of as many opportunities as possible, but in the late '90s, I had no idea that I'd end up being CFO of a technology company. I'd no idea what venture capital was.