She sat still, trying to hush her secret heart.

Most people do not see the world as it is. They see it as they are

That roads are for journeys, ma'am, not destinations

When a woman who has much to say says nothing, her silence can be deafening.

If love was a choice, who would ever choose such exquisite pain?

Maybe selflessness was only selfishness on another level.

Perhaps, she had dreamed, she would teach some future King, shaping his child mind for a new and better world.

Change from despair to joy he made her extremely beautiful.

The chains had fallen from her leg, but not from her mind.

Was she insane?! She would lose her head before she was 20!

She had become so much more accustomed to hard work and opposition than to adulation that the only emotion she had felt had been one of acute discomfort.

Those who win are those who think they can.

Sleeping beauty awoke at the kiss of a scientist and expired at the fatal puncture of his syringe.

My goal, with whatever I'm working on, is to lose track of time.

Large action arrest small action.

The choice of opening, whether to aim for quiet or risky play, depends not only on the style of a player, but also on the disposition with which he sits down at the board.

Possibilities ...in the closet ...itching ...to break out ...but afraid of ...the fallout

When times are bad, the gloves come off and employers are less nice. People become disposable.

My parents were devoted. Civic minded. We had family counsels. Three of us children against two of them. We lived a 'Leave It to Beaver' time.

[E]mpathy - not squishy self-serving conflict avoidance - is the hand-maiden, not the enemy, of reason and intellectual inquiry.

The Bible makes the best people in the world.