I hate how my past actions keep messing up my future options, Seth muttered. Then you've started down the road to wisdom, Grandpa replied.

Don't let the brownies bite.

False humility is more insulting than open pride!

In short, heroism means doing the right thing regardless of the consequences.

An unread book does nobody any good. Stories happen in the mind of a reader, not among symbols printed on a page.

Smart people learn from their mistakes. But the real sharp ones learn from the mistakes of others.

Want a reliable road to emotional and spiritual suicide? Spend your life trying to fit in.

Hello, cell. How are you? Still dank and dirty? Me? I've taken up a new habit: talking to my cell. It's like talking to myself but slightly more pathetic.

Running toward danger is foolhardy. ... But so is closing your eyes to it. Many perils become less dangerous once you understand their potential hazards.

FABLEHAVEN: None who enter will leave unchanged. Trespassers will be turned to stone.

Hard to call it a party without sardines.

A man ought to pray daily for himself, his wife, his children and his family.

You're my rain, Eric. You've been keeping me safe before I even knew you.

This is what America is about when it comes to understanding that it is equal opportunity versus equal achievement. Each and every one of us has the opportunity for greatness in this country.

It was Jacques Chirac and Schroeder both, who pushed us into a conflict to remove Milosevic.

We cannot build foundations of a state without rule of law.

I always wrote little things when I was younger. My first opus was a book of poems put down in a spiral notebook at five or six, handsomely accompanied by crayon illustrations.

Know yourself and go in swinging.

Never measure literature by accounting statistics. A quarter of working authors earn less than $1,000.

I always felt like I could combine good pop songs that are easy for people to like with a real person and a real mind and integrity.

There is but one way of refusing To-morrow, that is to die.