..if I dont do something on the grand scale, it is that my genius is altogether imitative, and that I have nor recently encountered any very striking models of grandeur.

..her smile, which was her pretty feature, was never so pretty as when her sprightly phrase had a scratch lurking in it.

He had sprung from a rigid Puritan stock, and had been brought up to think much more intently of the duties of this life than of its privileges and pleasures.

Most businesses would profit greatly from just applying Change Management 101 well.

At any given time, there are ideas and images that can only be communicated indirectly.

Picture books are an emotional medium. They need to make us feel something.

And I've seen the promised land. I may not get there with you. But I want you to know tonight, that we, as a people will get to the promised land

Is civilization only a higher form of idolatry, that man should bow down to a flesh-brush, to flannels, to baths, diet, exercise, and air?

If a theory purports to explain everything, then it is likely not explaining much at all.

It has been said that the sin of ingratitude is more serious than the sin of revenge. With revenge, we return evil for evil, but with ingratitude, we return evil for good.

Does the business have a consistent operating history?

I eat eight bags of chips in one sitting, and then nothing for a day or two. I learned that my body thought it was starving, so it would hold on to fat.

You go through phases. You have to reinvent reasons for playing, and one year's answer might not do for another.