After all, as long as you know, why make when you can take?

Don't let the brownies bite.

False humility is more insulting than open pride!

In short, heroism means doing the right thing regardless of the consequences.

An unread book does nobody any good. Stories happen in the mind of a reader, not among symbols printed on a page.

Smart people learn from their mistakes. But the real sharp ones learn from the mistakes of others.

Want a reliable road to emotional and spiritual suicide? Spend your life trying to fit in.

Hello, cell. How are you? Still dank and dirty? Me? I've taken up a new habit: talking to my cell. It's like talking to myself but slightly more pathetic.

Running toward danger is foolhardy. ... But so is closing your eyes to it. Many perils become less dangerous once you understand their potential hazards.

FABLEHAVEN: None who enter will leave unchanged. Trespassers will be turned to stone.

Hard to call it a party without sardines.

It was never about the world being too big, it was more like she was too much for the world to handle.

...always-the sharp, plaintive edgeon the rimof the spoonof my giving.(lines 8-13 of the poem 'Confessions')

An instrument s a tool that is actively used to change something, and God has called all of his people to be instruments of change in his redemptive hands

Inferior and Superior life lives in the interior of a person.

In the clutch of circumstance I have not winced or cried aloud Under the bludgeoning of chance my head is bloody but unbowed.

Even cowards can endure hardship only the brave can endure suspense.

You know why there's a Second Amendment? In case the government fails to follow the first one.

Well, my brother says 'Hello.' So, hooray for speech therapy.

Humor is not a trick, not jokes. Humor is a presence in the world - like grace - and shines on everybody.

My favorite actor is Sir Ben Kingsley - nobody is as good as him, in my opinion. I think he's so good as an artist.