"In our natural body every part has a necessary sympathy with every other; and all together form, by their harmonious conspiration, a healthy whole."

“People love stories. They need stories.”

Source : "Caroline Leavitt, Best-selling Author, On Overcoming Nasty Writing Teachers, How to Write a Bestseller and Never Giving Up". Interview with David Henry Sterry, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2013.

“I'm so lazy as far as liking to get up, go to the office in my pajamas, get dressed about noon. And I hate flying. So I have this really laid-back, good lifestyle, and it's hard to nudge me out of it.”

Source : "Galley Girl Catches Up With Barbara Park". Interview With Galley Girl, content.time.com. October 20, 2005.

“Vain is equivalent to empty; thus vanity is so miserable a thing, that one cannot give it a worse name than its own. It proclaims itself for what it is.”

“It's essential to distinguish between events that are really beyond your control and events you caused yourself.”

“I'm hard to get rid of." He smiled. All Tegan's suspicions about the boy came flooding back. "So it seems," she replied icily.”

“If you dig a pit for others to fall into, you will fall into it yourself.”

“What matters most is not what I think I am or am not. What matters is what my Father sees in me and what He says about me.”

“The world in which we live is the only world about which our senses can testify.”

Source : Abraham Flexner (2017). “The Usefulness of Useless Knowledge”, p.52, Princeton University Press