But you want murderous feelings? Hang around librarians," confided Gamache. "All that silence. Gives them ideas.

The night is a strawberry.

Myrna could spend happy hours browsing bookcases. She felt if she could just get a good look at a person’s bookcase and their grocery cart, she’d pretty much know who they were.

The four sayings that lead to wisdom: I was wrong I'm sorry I don't know I need help

Life is change. If you aren't growing and evolving, you're standing still, and the rest of the world is surging ahead.

Fear lives in the head. And courage lives in the heart. The job is to get from one to the other.

No good ever comes from putting up walls. What people mistake for safety is in fact captivity. And few things thrive in captivity.

Better to accept the wretched truth than struggle, twisting to make a wish a reality.

When someone stabs you it's not your fault that you feel pain.

Where there is love there is courage, where there is courage there is peace, where there is peace there is God. And when you have God, you have everything.

It's a shame that creativity and sloth look exactly the same.

As you give God your time, your gifts, your resources and talents, He will use them to have a critically important and eternal impact on this world.

Language furnishes the best proof that a law accepted by a community is a thing that is tolerated and not a rule to which all freely consent.

I write by ear. I tried writing with the typewriter, but I found it too unwieldy

No man can teach the Gospel of Jesus Christ under the inspiration of the living God and with power from on high unless he is living it.

Lincoln had a tremendous capacity for personal growth - more than any other American President.

When you strip away the genre differences and the technological complexities, all games share four defining traits: a goal, rules, a feedback system, and voluntary participation.

Jeanne Moreau, Lauren Bacall, they had this unconventional beauty, this amazing charisma.

Talent is like money; you don't have to have some to talk about it.

A definition is death. A definition is the answer to which you must look up the question in the back of your book.

Past and future are in the mind only - I am now.