If there is anything I can do, I'll help. Don't get excited. It's not because of you. For the child. If it wasn't for her and the flare, I'd throw your dumb ass out of this window. "What does the...

Did you think I was sitting on my hands? I thought you might be injured. We've met, you and I? I'm making room for your ego.

I want you to understand me. This isn't vengeance. This is punishment.

I can make some calls. There is a guy. Dagfinn Heyerdahl. He used to be with Norse Heritage Foundation. The Norse Heritage Foundation wasn't so much about heritage as it was about vikings, in the most...

In death, they all looked the same. This morning they spoke, they breathed, they kissed their loved ones good-bye. And now they lay dead. Gone forever.

For me, reading was adventure, but most of all, reading was escape -

On a plane I like to be left to myself, as the clouds and the sky and drone of the motor all make me feel dreamy, and dreams are a solo enterprise.

Truth, of course, must of necessity be stranger than fiction, for we have made fiction to suit ourselves.

So then, why not give the workers spoons instead of shovels?

It's a short reminder that success can usually be measured by the number of uncomfortable conversations we are willing to have, and by the number of uncomfortable actions we are willing to take.

Ordinarily he was insane, but he had lucid moments when he was merely stupid. - HEINRICH HEINE

No newspapers, magazines, audiobooks, or nonmusic radio. Music is permitted at all times. No news websites whatsoever {cnn.com, drudgereport.com, msn.com,10 etc.}. No television at all, except for one...

Most good chefs believe there is no such thing as too much garlic.

Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate. - DAVE BARRY, Pulitzer...

Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued. - Socrates

When I wake up in the morning, I'm thinking to myself: What can I do to be ready for that moment, which is coming? That propels me out of bed.

It is predicated on the assumption that you dislike what you are doing during the most physically capable years of your life. This is a nonstarter - nothing can justify that sacrifice.

America's food system is broken.

My attitude is if fashion says it's forbidden, I'm going to do it.

On page 145, I defined belonging as the innate human desire to be part of something larger than us. One of the biggest surprises in this research was learning that fitting in and belonging are not the...

... O God, here, as so often, I cannot help. Let me not forget she is your child and your concern makes mine as nothing.

Meg cut up some celery and mixed it in with the tuna. After a moment's hesitation she opened the refrigerator door and brought out a jar of little sweet pickles. - Though why I'm doing it for her I...

There is only one form of approaching that does not prevent individual development, does not cause friction or a lack of energy — it is mature love. I mean a complete intimate relationship between...

People are afraid to concentrate because they are afraid of losing themselves if they are too absorbed in another person, in an idea, in an event. The less strong their self, the greater the fear of...

The more the feeling of incapacity and the lack of genuine will increase, the more submission or obsessive desire to please one's whims and insistence on choosing proliferates.

Government is at best but an expedient; but most governments are usually, and all governments are sometimes, inexpedient.

It is not all books that are as dull as their readers. There are probably words addressed to our condition exactly, which, if we could really hear and understand, would be more salutary than the...

There is but little virtue in the action of masses of men.

A single farm house which I had not seen before is sometimes as good as the dominions of the King of Dahomey. There is in fact a sort of harmony discoverable between the capabilities of the landscape...

Beauty and true wealth are always thus cheap and despised. Heaven might be defined as the place which men avoid.