A family is a group of people who keep confusing you with someone you were as a kid.

There are people who live their whole lives on the default settings, never realizing you can customize.

There are exactly as many special occasions in life as we choose to celebrate.

There is no such thing as gratitude unexpressed. If it is unexpressed, it is plain, old-fashioned ingratitude.

If you feel you are down on your luck, check the level of your effort.

Today I bent the truth to be kind, and I have no regret, for I am far surer of what is kind than I am of what is true.

I count myself lucky, having long ago won a lottery paid to me in seven sunrises a week for life.

Most of us don't need a psychiatric therapist as much as a friend to be silly with.

The advantage of growing up with siblings is that you become very good at fractions.

If you've never experienced the joy of accomplishing more than you can imagine, plant a garden.

The imagination is a palette of bright colors. You can use it to touch up memories — or you can use it to paint dreams.

So, what's it like in the real world? Well, the food is better, but beyond that, I don't recommend it.

Here are beauties which pierce like swords or burn like cold iron. Here is a book [The Lord of the Rings] which will break your heart."

A horse, if he happens to have a contemptuous disposition, can sneer very effectively.

The subjectivist states his judgements, whereas the objectivist sweeps them under the carpet by calling assumptions knowledge, and he basks in the glorious objectivity of science.

Because there can be consequences for saying the first thing that pops into our heads, it is prudent to exercise tact.

I grew up racing off-road trucks. They were on road courses with jumps. I made a name for myself in that style of racing.

Don't be a hero. Don't have an ego.

She obeys me, but only because she wants to. It's the only justification for obedience, Ged observed.