Chirag: Rowley, do you think I exist? Rowley: Nope! I can't even hear you or see you!

... no matter how nice you are to some people, they'll turn their back on you the second they get the chance.

Because it's our choices that makes us who we are.

I think if everyone would write down the funny stories from their own childhoods, the world would be a better place.

You can't expect everyone to have the same dedication as you.

I'm probably something like 95% chicken nugget

See, when you're a little kid, nobody ever warns you that you've got an expiration date. One day you're hot stuff and the next day you're a dirt sandwich.

So I've started wearing sweatpants to bed because I really don't need Santa seeing me in my underwear.

I labored for eight years thinking that I was writing a book for adults that was a nostalgic look back on childhood. Then my publisher informed me I'd written a children's book.

I'm having a seriously hard time getting used to the fact that summer is over and I have to get out of bed every morning to go to school.

Well, the problem is, it's not easy for me to think of ways to improve myself, because I'm pretty much one of the best people I know.

...mastery of the emotions is fundamental to a virtuous life.

A man is merely to implement the law. He is there not to decide what to implement as we already have the law. We don't have a legislative body.

Any amount of theology can now be smuggled into people's minds under the cover of fiction without their knowing it.

I want an autobiography without revealing any personal information.

Winds are advertisements of all they touch, however much or little we may be able to read them; telling their wanderings even by their scents alone.

When love beckons to you, follow him, Though his ways are hard and steep. And when his wings enfold you yield to him, Though the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you.

We need to stop, and admit it: we have a prediction problem. We love to predict things—and we aren’t very good at it.

Khomeini has offered us the opportunity to regain our frail religion ... faith in the power of words.

We need to create a new revolution, and to do that, don’t waste your life: stop pleasing people, and become who you always wanted to be.

Oh my God," he said. "A kind word from Rose Hathaway. I can die a happy man.