I was an Eisenhower Republican when I started out at 21 because he promised to get us out of the Korean War.
Domestic terrorism has opened new war zones, operating off the assumption that all Americans are potential terrorists.
If there ever was a religious war full of terror, it was the crusades. But you can't blame Christianity because a few adventurers did this. That's my message.
Fights don't solve matters, they just make things worse. (Diary 19)
it was a good book and it was an awesome and fun thing to be in color.
We are at a punctuation point in human history where the Industrial Age and institutions have finally come to their logical conclusion. They have essentially run out of gas.
Industrial capitalism brought representative democracy, but with a weak public mandate and inert citizenry. The digital age offers a new democracy based on public deliberation and active citizenship.
For me at age 11, I had a pair of binoculars and looked up to the moon, and the moon wasn't just bigger, it was better. There were mountains and valleys and craters and shadows. And it came alive.
While I'm not a celebrity, it's such a weird concept that society has cooked up for us. Astronauts and teachers are much more amazing than actors.
We think of enterprise architecture as the process we use for fully describing and mapping business functionality and business requirements and relating them to information systems requirements.
If there is one ‘constant’ in the structure and theme of the wonder tale, it is transformation.
Nobody until very recently would have thought that their husband was supposed to be their best friend, confidante, intellectual soul mate, co-parent, inspiration.
Every successful person I have heard of has done the best he could with the conditions as he found them, and not waited until next year for better.
'Tempting the Best Man' centers around Madison Daniels, who's had a major crush on her brother's best friend since she was a girl.
Two quilters who have just met will be strangers only until their mutual passion for quilting is revealed. Then they can talk for hours like the best of friends.
I do my best to build a strong factual foundation for each of my novels and rely upon my author's notes to keep my conscience clear.
I support affirmative action. I support special measures when you need it.
A vision is not just a picture of what could be; it is an appeal to our better selves, a call to become something more.
I don't believe in email. I'm an old-fashioned girl. I prefer calling and hanging up.
Whenever anyone calls me 'The new J..K. Rowling,' I think, 'What's wrong with the old one?'
You see, I have a policy about honesty and ass-kicking, which is, if you ask for it, then I have to let you have it.
