For others, in spite of myself, from myself.

Better to see the face than to hear the name.

Source Unknown

If you read the first page of one of my novels, I can guarantee that you will read the last one. This isn't just social commentary. This is also about writing good page-turners. I want people to keep reading.

Jodi Picoult

Moonlight is sculpture.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

People will insist on treating the mons Veneris as though it were Mount Everest. Too silly!

Aldous Huxley

Each class of society has its own requirements; but it may be said that every class teaches the one immediately below it; and if the highest class be ignorant, uneducated, loving display, luxuriousness, and idle, the same spirit will prevail in humbler life.

Source Unknown

What God intended for you goes far beyond anything you can imagine.

Oprah Winfrey

Elections belong to the people. It's their decision. If they decide to turn their back on the fire and burn their behinds, then they will just have to sit on their blisters.

Abraham Lincoln

A strong hatred is the best lamp to bear in our hands as we go over the dark places of life, cutting away the dead things men tell us to revere.

Rebecca West

Start early and begin raising the bar throughout the day.

Bruce Jenner

Nothing is more hopeless than a scheme of merriment.

Samuel Johnson

He who does without the praise of the crowd will not deny himself an opportunity to be his own adherent.

Karl Kraus

Teenage girls these days are more and more getting lured into thinking they should dumb themselves down, and that's going to attract the wrong kind of guy, and it's serious. It's serious business.

Danica McKellar