Grinning is something you do when you are entertained in some way, such as reading a good book or watching someone you don't care for spill orange soda all over themselves.

Friends can make you feel that the world is smaller and less sneaky than it really is, because you know people who have similar experiences.

everything happens for a reason.

Everyone should be able to do one card trick, tell two jokes, and recite three poems, in case they are ever trapped in an elevator.

Miracles are like pimples, because once you start looking for them you find more than you ever dreamed you'd see.

Oftentimes. when people are miserable, they will want to make other people miserable, too. But it never helps.

the table of elements does not contain one of the most powerful elements that make up our world, and that is the element of surprise.

Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.

There are two kinds of fears: rational and irrational- or in simpler terms, fears that make sense and fears that don't.

He looked like the sort of person who would tell you that he did not have an umbrella to lend you when he actually had several and simply wanted to see you get soaked.

I suppose I'll have to add the force of gravity to my list of enemies.

Our body is a sacred temple A place to connect with people. As we aren't staying any younger We might as well keep it stronger.

Water liked to be free. Given time, water could overcome any barrier, and it hated to be trapped, just like Percy.

One can only define the unknown by its supposed and supposable relations with the known.

Love must be the same in all worlds.

Whatever is natural admits of variety.

If you don't dance, for heaven's sake, you cannot aspire. You do not lift up from this earth.

I'm just stayin' humble, and true. It's good right now baby - staying' true baby.

The head talks to the heart and the heart talks to the feet.

I know of no such thing as genius, genius is nothing but labor and diligence.

Again and again, the cicada's untiring cry pierced the sultry summer air like a needle at work on thick cotton cloth.