Cats learned how to fly that evening.

there is no moment more precious than the exact moment you are living now

There is no dignity in a crying toothpick.

There are some things your mind has been hiding from you.

You can be only what you give yourself the power to be.

You seem to be attracted to trouble," he said. "Yeah, she's real pretty," I replied. "Your tongue is sharper than mine ever was." I stuck out my tongue and tried to look at the tip of it.

What was that you gave me to eat?" Winter panicked. A Filler Crisp," Clover said, his eyes seventy percent concerned and thirty percent mischievous.

That said, I, Beck Phillips, take full responsibility for being stuck in m y school's pitch-black venting system with my friend Jason, behind me and a garbage bag full of angry bees in front of me.

There is no relationship in life that comes with the promise of zero pain.

We can only be what we give ourselves the power to be.

impossible is not a word

There is comfort, even among strangers, when people find something they are equally passionate about.

...American psychology effectively guaranteed its place as a cultural icon by helping to create the pathologies it simultaneously promised to treat. (p. 37)

Your morning routine generates a 10x return for good or for bad. Make it good.

Why am I doing this? Because it feels so good to talk like we used to, even though I know this is just a shadow of what we had. But I chase it anyway.

I'd like to say that this time I'd kill myself too..but I've never had that kind of courage.

Instead of going to Paris to attend lectures, go to the public library, and you won't come out for twenty years, if you really wish to learn.

It is time that scientists and other public intellectuals observed that the contest between faith and reason is zero-sum.

After a lifetime of swimming upstream, I am convinced that one of the real secrets to Wal-mart's phenomenal success has been that very tendency.

Cain understands domestic issues because he had experience selling pizza; and he understands international issues because pizza is Italian.

Second, the only proven technique for treatment for chemically dependent people involves use of a spiritual program of self-change.