Alone. It's one of those small words that means entirely too much. Like fear. Or trust.

The building was on fire, and it wasn’t my fault.

When everything goes to hell, the people who stand by you without flinching - they are your family.

Laugh whenever you can. Keeps you from killing yourself when things are bad. That and vodka.

I've always felt that the best whips and chains are in the mind. With a little creativity, the physical ones are hardly necessary.

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I checked my gear, my pockets, my shoelaces, and realized that I had crossed the line between making sure I was ready and trying to postpone the inevitable.

I'd made the vampire cry. Great. I felt like a real superhero. Harry Dresden, breaker of monsters' hearts.

Though I walk through the valley of the shadow of trauma, I will fear no concussion.

I died. I died and someone made a clerical error and I am in Heaven.

There is the world that should be and the world that is. We live in one and must create the other.

Whatever you do, never forget to love everyone around you.

I see your picture and in that picture I didn't see you.

The people need a hero. But all they've got is . . . me.

Courage is what preserves our liberty safety life and our homes and parents our country and children. Courage comprises all things.

I know I learn a lot from the students in my class and I'm not just saying that to sound like some generous teacher.

All the real work is done in the rehearsal period.

I've just finished reading some of my early papers, and you know, when I'd finished I said to myself, 'Rutherford, my boy, you used to be a damned clever fellow.' (1911)

Bread for myself is a material question. Bread for my neighbor is a spiritual one.

For the moment all discipline seems painful rather than pleasant; later it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it.

I feel like every word I say now, I can really inspire people.