Bravery and Stupidity can often be mistaken for the other.

The truth isn't meant to be pretty, that's for beauty pageants.

People do not start off stupid, they grow to be stupid.

Hope' wins over 'Experience' every time.

When you understand just how big the Universe is, you then realize that only idiots fight over an area of space called land.

Leaders never have to ask the people to, 'Come follow me.' The people believe just by watching his lead.

You are the illusion, be anything you want to be!

The saner you are, the crazier you are.

Yesterday doesn't even look the same, and the only thing more beautiful than today is tomorrow.

I do not take advice from people who are 100 percent sure. I take advice from those that believe they are as close to sure as possible, but understand they could be completely wrong.

Hope wins over experience every time.

People try to use your past against you not realizing you were using it to propel you.

Filthy, mucky tools: filthy, mucky work. Clean, beautiful tools: clean, beautiful work.

The greatest service you can render someone else is helping him help himself.

He'd burn the whole world down til he could dig out you of the ashes.

The tender heart, the broken and contrite spirit, are to me far above all the joys that I could ever hope for in this vale of tears.

No man or woman alive, magical or not, has ever escaped some form of injury, whether physical, mental, or emotional. To hurt is as human as to breathe.

The impossible happens.

I ached for the difference between Carlisle and me - that he could touch her so gently, without fear, knowing he would never harm her.

Make sure they remember you.

All writers believe in the magic of books; Jim Hines has created a system where that magic becomes real, usable, and very definitely not always safe.