I’d much rather have good teeth than have diamonds and roses drop out of my mouth whenever I said something

Ideas are the easy part. The hard part is writing them down.

How can you know it's the best, if you don't learn about anything else?

In short, if we wish to see anything sensible done about the situation, we will clearly have to do it ourselves.

May you and your triple cursed wash water turn purple with orange spots and fall down a bottomless pit!

Always be polite to a dragon. It's harder than it sounds. Dragon etiquette is incredibly complicated, and if you make a mistake, the dragon eats you.

Murphy is a writer's best friend, but you have to keep an eye on him, or he'll steal the silver.

Sometimes, though, you have to do things for family, even if you'd rather not.

You can't force folks to have good sense, even if they're family. Maybe especially then.

Humility is as good for the soul as it is for the memory

Kim was more than a little inclined to snarl at him, but in the past few days she had learned that snarling at Mairelon did little good. He simply smiled and corrected her grammar.

O let me be undone the common way, And have the common comfort to be pity'd, And not be ruin'd in the mask of bliss, And so be envy'd, and be wretched too!

The other day a woman came up to me and said, Didn't I see you on television? I said, I don't know. You can't see out the other way.

Man is a fugitive from nature.

Would you believe in what you believe in if you were the only one who believed it?

There is a deeper life. It is as deep as a personal Gethsemane and as costly as a personal Calvary.

Always put off until tomorrow what you shouldn't do at all.

Honey, I don't care, I ain't in love with your hair, and if it all fell out I'd love you anyway.

I had to learn American sign language. And I did stuff in it, stuff that was just for me and was fun, that I don't think anyone would ever notice.

I don't take any day for granted anymore.

When Mister Safety Catch Is Not On, Mister Crossbow Is Not Your Friend.