"Let family worship be short, savory, simple, plain, tender, heavenly."

“Before the iPhone, cyberspace was something you went to your desk to visit. Now cyberspace is something you carry in your pocket.”

“In Milly Barranger, Margaret Webster has found the perfect biographer. In Margaret Webster, Milly Barranger has found her perfect subject. She brings to vivid life a fascinating and important theater figure whose public and private lives were of equal interest. In this carefully researched book, Webster's colleagues, lovers, and friends shine as brightly as she did. I wish she were here to read it.”

“To understand a cat, you must realize that he has has own gifts, his own viewpoint, even his own morality”

Source : Lilian Jackson Braun (2006). “Two Cats, Three Tales”, p.68, Penguin

“Bobby Fischer started off each game with a great advantage: after the opening he had used less time than his opponent and thus had more time available later on. The major reason why he never had serious time pressure was that his rapid opening play simply left sufficient time for the middlegame.”

“I've come with a happy heart from the beginning, and hope there is a happy ending.”

“Racing is not what I like to do; it's winning.”

“All the technique in the world doesn't compensate for the inability to notice.”

“Stories you read when you're the right age never quite leave you. You may forget who wrote them or what the story was called. Sometimes you'll forget precisely what happened, but if a story touches you it will stay with you, haunting the places in your mind that you rarely ever visit.”