The good face pain. But the great? They embrace it.

Women do desperately need models for power other than the maternal.

When you choose an action, you choose the consequences of that action.

My dinner party,' Miles grated. 'It's just breaking up.' And sinking. All souls feared lost.

Good soldiers never pass up a chance to eat or sleep. They never know how much they'll be called on to do before the next chance.

As the week wore on, Ivan contemplated the merits of inertia as a problem-solving technique with growing favor

You can say a lot in a little time, if you stick to words of one syllable.