Before I was ever in my teens, I knew exactly what I wanted to be when I grew up. My goal was to be the greatest athlete that ever lived.

If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf.

Richard Buckminster Fuller

Heaven knows, I've exposed myself in my novels through the use of fantasy and imagination... now my new book is about what really happened to me... not my heroines.

Judith Krantz

If we allow our self-congratulatory adoration of technology to distract us from our own contact with each other, then somehow the original agenda has been lost.

Jaron Lanier

The decline of literature indicates the decline of a nation.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Pippa's laugh is bitter, tinged with tears. 'Ha! Why do girls think being beautiful will solve every problem? Being beautiful just creates problems. It's a misery. I wish I were someone else.

Libba Bray

The marvels of daily life are exciting; no movie director can arrange the unexpected that you find in the street.

Robert Doisneau

Leadership is the challenge to be something more than average.

Jim Rohn

For the first time I understood the haunting beauty of the song. It was the song of a killer who longed to die. It was the song of justice yearned for but not yet done.

Orson Scott Card

My friends, there are no friends.

Coco Chanel

When you're about to die, your whole life's supposed to flash before your eyes. When you fall in true love, on the other hand, what you see in the twinkling of an eye is your entire future.

Tom Holt

A pleasant illusion is better than a harsh reality.

Christian Nevell Bovee

Even as your body betrays you, your mind denies it.

Sara Gruen