I am determined to enjoy each day to the fullest. I don't want to wish away Christmas. I want to enjoy these last moments of Advent and look forward to Jesus's birth with anticipation.

Idle hands make fretful minds.

If you can't see the bright side, why ya just need to polish the dull one.

Would you think it strange if I said I was having a good time? We're lost and confused and carrying around a cat. By all accounts, I should be feeling completely at a loss. Irritated.

Christmas is a time of sharing, and joy and grace. There's no better time to entertain family and friends than now.

I have diligently disciplined my life to search out life’s gifts in the places where life stores its scraps.

Old age believe me is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator.

Not anymore. I'm afraid I've degenerated into a bibliophile." "A what?" asked Eragon. "One who loves books," explained Jeod.

For us, there's an inherent process when you're ending something to be thinking about the beginning, as writers.

For the average person, all problems date to World War II; for the more informed, to World War I; for the genuine historian, to the French Revolution.

It is nought good a sleping hound to wake.

Reason is 6/7 of treason.

If you are not annoying someone, you are not doing anything new

We are each in the middle of our own path. We do not know what will be at the end of our story.

May we muster courage at the crossroads, courage for the conflicts, courage to say, "no," courage to say, "yes," for courage counts.