Every book is a box of ideas.

Passing time isn't a steady thing. People try to measure it, but some days seem to have years packed into them, and others pass in the blink of an eye. Some days matter, and others don't.

You will come to agree with me.

What was a foreigner, anyway? Is the place you're born the only place you really belong? At what point do you stop being from "away" and start being from "here"?

I love the way a list makes a big hodgepodge of things simmer down and behave.

Yes, the wind came up--" Mrs. Sharpe began. She paused."And changed us all, " Petra said softly.

Picasso said that art is a lie, but a lie that tells the truth" ... Calder wondered what Picasso had meant. Was it that art wasn't exactly the real world, but it said something real?

Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.

Oh, well, that's not bad, I suppose. I mean, I'd prefer devastatingly sophisticated - but almost endearing is more than I could have hoped for under the circumstances.

It was one of the primary rules of thievery. When hiding, sneaking, and trickery are all out, the correct answer is "run like hell."

If our gospel does not free the individual up for a unique life of spiritual adventure in living with God daily, we simply have not entered fully into the good news that Jesus brought.

What you focus on you become. If you spend an hour or two a day meditating and focusing on light, then you will eventually become light.

I guess I am famous in a way. I would rather consider it recognizable - I think that is more logical. I don't feel famous.

One thing I feel is this: that a great deal of poetry is the product of adolescence-or of an emotionally adolescent frame of mind: and that as this state of mind changes, poetry is likely to dry up.

If you didn't have anxiety, then you wouldn't have passion for anything. The reason we have anxiety is because you care and you're thoughtful.

The home is the empire! There is no peace more delightful than one's own fireplace.

He hates me more," says Peeta. "I don't think people in general are his sort of thing.