The supreme accomplishment is to blur the line between work and play.

We have been God-like in our planned breeding of our domestic plants and animals but rabbit-like in our unplanned breeding of ourselves.

We are in the first age since the dawn of civilization in which people have dared to think it practicable to make the benefits of civilization available to the whole human race.

To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization.

Civilization is a movement - not a condition a voyage - not a harbour.

Civilization is a movement and not a condition a voyage and not a harbor.

The history of almost every civilization furnishes examples of geographical expansion coinciding with deterioration in quality.

I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be.

The art of being wise is to respond to everything with kindness and love.

The purpose of life is to be happy by loving, giving, and forgiving.

When I don't like the name of a place or a person I always imagine a new one and always think of them so. " Anne of Green Gables

As nations improve, so do their gods.

Don't let anyone ever make you feel you don't deserve what you want.

Mom always said people worried too much about their children. Suffering when you are young is good for you, she said. It immunized your body and your soul.

I love it when people ask if Jennifer Weiner is a pen name. Um, if I wanted a pen name I could have done a LOT better than this!

To me, a writer is one of the most important soldiers in the fight for survival of the human race. He must stay at his post in the thick of fire to serve the cause of mankind.

I am far from perfect, but I have something else. I heard that people in the industry are longing for more personality and diversity. Perhaps I am more a 'character' than a model.