But luck withered by conservative, tired, riskless living can be plumped up again--after all, it was only a bit thirsty for something to do.

Death is not a checkmate…it is more like a carnival trick. You cannot win, no matter how you move your Queen.

Do not ruin today with mourning tomorrow.

Hats have power. Hats can change you into someone else.

We all live inside the terrible engine of authority, and it grinds and shrieks and burns so that no one will say: lines on maps are silly.

Where there is a Key, there is yet hope.

That’s what happens to friends, eventually. They leave you. It’s practically what they’re for.

It is well known that reading quickens the growth of a heart like nothing else.

She sounds like someone who spends a lot of time in libraries, which are the best sorts of people.

When the world changes, it stashes us away where we can't make it run the other way again.

So most people go around with grimy machinery, when all it would take is a bit of spit and polish to make them paladins once more, bold knights and true.

There is no point to be alive if you live like a dead man

In sitting meditation, we train in mindfulness and unconditional friendliness: in being steadfast with our bodies, our emotions, our thoughts.

Weather forecast for tonight: dark.

Maybe she'd never really known her mother at all. And if you couldn't know the person whose body was your first home, then who could you ever know?

Good government is good politics.

I was a coach, and I put a lot of education and experience into coaching.

People want to buy mp3s but can't? Piracy ensues. Then Apple strong-arms the music studios into the iTunes store and music piracy drops somewhat. The same, I believe, is also happening with ebooks.

I think the real risk comes in being willing to try to be authentic.

Success is mostly driven by how badly you want something and how well you partner with other great people. It has to do with how hungry you are.

Of course, in all magic tricks theres a secret.