We live, I regret to say, in an age of Big Data hype.

The best way to appreciate your job is to imagine yourself without one.

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.

Always forgive your enemies nothing annoys them so much.

It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.

Everyone may not be good, but there's always something good in everyone. Never judge anyone shortly because every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

Be yourself; everyone else is taken.

Women are made to be loved, not understood.

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.

I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.

I don't think of all the misery, but of the beauty that still remains.

My eyes refuse to let him leave, but he stands still holding my hand, lingering for as long as possible.

Over time, parents have barnacled the most routine activities in infancy with their own preoccupations. It's sometimes hard to see the baby for all the barnacles.

One must be rich in thought and character to owe nothing to books.

I think a challenge for myself is to see how many times I can get above 9,000. That would be a good challenge.

If you're going to decipher a hidden code from a complex set of different mazes, I'm pretty sure you need a girl's brain running the show.

The reason to get in touch with the culture is not to adopt it but to engage it for the same reasons a missionary does... to gain a hearing for the gospel.

In the jungle, life and food depend on keeping your temper.

I was doing what I thought I had to do. There was romance in the idea of being married. It was just the wrong reasons.

I didn't read reviews earlier in my career, but I read them now as I'm older. I read them all.