The Navy-Marine Corps team is unique in history because its mobility and versatility permit it to make a contribution in virtually every medium of warfare: land, sea and air.

Outer beauty attracts, but inner beauty captivates.

There's always the danger that the extreme feminist will end up quite unfulfilled as a girl.

By then I knew that everything good and bad left an emptiness when it stopped. But if it was bad, the emptiness filled up by itself. If it was good you could only fill it by finding something better.

They were smiling at each other as if this was the beginning of the world.

Allow yourself to lose your way.

Adding last-minute features, whether in response to competitive pressure, as a developer's pet feature, or on the whim of management, causes more bugs in software than almost anything else.

I love thriller writers. My favourites are Harlan Coban, Lee Child, Ian Rankin, Kathy Reichs and Ed McBain.

Stressed souls need the reassuring rhythm of self-nurturing rituals.

Remember that nothing is small in the eyes of God. Do all that you do with love.