Elfangor laughed in my mind. "You don't have to give up your principles to win. Isn't there always an alternative to sacrifice if you just keep your mind clear, and step back, and see it, and..."

I like colorful tales with black beginnings and stormy middles and cloudless blue-sky endings. But any story will do.

My dream is to have a house on the beach, even just a little shack somewhere so I can wake up, have coffee, look at dolphins, be quiet and breathe the air.

If you're too in your head and you're not in the moment, life passes you by.

Homework, I have discovered, involves a sharp pencil and thick books and long sighs.

When I'm drawing a picture, I feel...quiet inside.

Death's gruesome face taunts: soulless eyes, crimson grimace. I really hate clowns.

Growing up gorilla is just like any other kind of growing up. You make mistakes. You play. You learn. You do it all over again.

I've been vegetarian for so long now that I don't remember anything different, so it's easy for me to put meals together and make sure my family is eating healthy, too.

Take no moment for granted.

I think that in many ways, just as forgiveness is impossible without love, sometimes love requires forgiveness for it to work, too.

The attempt to restrain prices within limits has to be given up. A government that sets out to abolish market prices is inevitably driven towards the abolition of private property.

Clear skies do not promise rain.

Religion is the sole technique for the validating of values.

People don't like railroad tracks near them? We'll see how they feel when the percentage of U.S. citizens who can afford to drive a car goes way down, as it will.

I'm lucky, always hopeful... I love my life.

Father: 'Anything but journalism.' I rebelled.

I read once that the true mark of a pro - at anything - is that he understands, loves, and is good at even the drudgery of his profession.

It's like a lot of kids; when you tell them someone's died, they laugh.

What if someone picks on me?" I asked Then I'll pick on them". What if someone picks my nose?" I asked. The I'll pick your nose, too" Rowdy said.

Only when Shiva is united with Shakti does he have the power to create -