Being smart can make happiness elusive. Being REALLY smart can help you find it in more places than most.

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.

Be a fountain of love, positivity, kindness, and abundance.

Live each day as if it could be the last day that you spend with your husband or wife.

Coercing attitude drains your strength.

Sometimes you have to separate yourself from the ones you love for a season, so God can reveal things to you by His spirit.

We tell you, tapping on our brows, The story as it should be, As if the story of a houseWere told or ever could be.

He's not fit to lace my boots as a player. (on Kevin Keegan)

Doing nothing in the face of a grave threat to the world is not an option.

I've made clothes my whole life, but I was just naive about the fashion world. But I think it's successful because I've been really involved. Picking the samples, inspirations, color palette.

It is the large aggregate of small things perpetually occurring that robs me of all my time. The expense of learning to read might have been spared in my education, for I never read.

When I got divorced, I thought 'Well, there goes my act.'