Industry is the soul of business and the keystone of prosperity.
New York was an idea, I thought, an idea held simultaneously by thirteen million people.
History is the study of lies, anyway, because no witness ever recalls events with total accuracy, not even eyewitnesses.
It's dangerous to start attributing your fortunes to luck and your misfortunes to fate.
If you have a dream of writing, that's wishful thinking. If you have a commitment to writing, that's the way to make your dreams come true.
It was at our library that I found Nancy Drew and fell in love with the genre. I've been grateful ever since for those tolerant, book-loving librarians who allowed a child like me to read what I wanted to read.
Where there are problems, there are angels hovering about just waiting for us to ask them to help us transform our suffering into blessings. I'm not being religious, I'm telling you the truth as I have experienced it. . . . And I'm not being trendy either. I was talking to angels long before they got fashionable. . . . So maybe you don't believe in angels, that's all right, they don't care. They're not like Tinkerbell, you know, they don't depend on your faith to exist. A lot of people didn't believe the earth was round either, but that didn't make it any flatter.
If man has been kicked up out of that which is only impersonal by chance , then those things that make him man-hope of purpose and significance, love, motions of morality and rationality, beauty and verbal communication-are ultimately unfulfillable and thus meaningless.
Being an ugly woman is like being a man. You're gonna have to work. Yep.
My grades in high school were not very good. I was that kind of perfectionist that figured if you can't do it perfectly, why do it at all?
What can I say? I prefer to die well informed.