The leadership instinct you are born with is the backbone. You develop the funny bone and the wishbone that go with it.quoted by Rex Seline in Fort Worth, Texas, Star-Telegram

No characters in 'Stay Close,' including the leads, are black and white. I want them to be grey. I think that makes for a much more interesting reading experience, something that will stay with you a little bit longer.

Harlan Coben

Please don't take my wings...

Randall Wallace

Using your mind is a faster method to getting what you want. I mean, all you have to do is sit there. What could be easier?

Stephen Richards

Friendship should be more than biting time can sever.

TS (Thomas Stearns) Eliot

The bank mania is one of the most threatening of these imitations. It is raising up a monied aristocracy in our country which has already set the government at defiance, and although forced at length to yield a little on this first essay of their strength, their principles are unyielded and unyielding.

Thomas Jefferson

If we had failed to pursue the facts as far as they led, we would have denied the public any knowledge of an unprecedented scheme of political surveillance and sabotage.

Katharine Graham

None of you knows what creativity means. To paint a picture, to write a poem? No! To recast one's whole age, to impose upon it the stamp of one's will, to fill it with beauty, to overwhelm it, to overpower it with one's spirit.

Christian Morgenstern

All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few.

Stendhal

In Giving, a man receives more than he gives; and the more is in proportion to the worth of the thing given.

George Mcdonald

In peace there's nothing so becomes a man as modest stillness and humility; but when the blast of war blows in our ears, then imitate the actions of the tiger; stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood, disguise fair nature with hard-favor'd rage.

William Shakespeare

Nights without work I spent with whisky and books.

Haruki Murakami

I haven't ever really relied on relationships with guys. They come around and it's cool, but it's never been a big thing. I guess I've just been really distracted by work.

Leighton Meester