Strong women aren’t simply born. We are forged through the fires of life.

The enthusiasm to work hard and endless determination are the two great skills for success.

You've evolved when you realize the effect that your positive contributions to others create ripples of humanity in the sea of life.

Be so good they can’t ignore you.

The real tight interface is between the book and the reader-the world of the book is plugged right into your brain, never mind the [virtual reality] bodysuit.

...because it is the very nature of Imperialism to turn humans into beasts.

Emotions are messengers that carry information. Spiritual growth depends upon receiving that information & using it.

I feel like if you're in Jersey, you have to be a Jersey Devils fan. Anybody born within the confines of the border of the state of New Jersey, I feel, should be a Jersey Devils fan.

Adolescents are the bearers of cultural renewal, those cycles of generation and regeneration that link our limited individual destinies with the destiny of the species.

In the later books I am much more at home in the use of language to describe things. I had never thought of that until a critic pointed that out.

While learning the language in France a young man's morals, health and fortune are more irresistibly endangered than in any country of the universe.