I'm just very careful with my words when I write. Obsessively careful. I'm the sort of person who worries about the difference between "slim" and "slender."

When we are children we seldom think of the future. This innocence leaves us free to enjoy ourselves as few adults can. The day we fret about the future is the day we leave our childhood behind.

Words are pale shadows of forgotten names. As names have power, words have power. Words can light fires in the minds of men. Words can wring tears from the hardest hearts.

I have, of course, been called many other things. Most of them uncouth, although very few were unearned

The world is a mess and I just need to rule it.

Half of seeming clever is keeping your mouth shut at the right times.

It's like everyone tells a story about themselves inside their own head. Always. All the time. That story makes you what you are. We build ourselves out of that story.

It was wise enough to know itself, and brave enough to be itself, and wild enough to change itself while somehow staying altogether true.

If I seem to wander, if I seem to stray, remember that true stories seldom take the straightest way

There are three things all wise men fear: the sea in storm, a night with no moon, and the anger of a gentle man.

Do not mistake me for my mask. You see light dappling on the water and forget the deep, cold dark beneath.

I really like Septimus Heap. he is my favorite guy in the story. I should make you all read it.

You are not who you think you are.

In our education system, we are taught to munch figures and remember them for lifetime. But does it help? We are not taught how to make decisions.

Muhammad aware of what to look for and he handled it on his own. He did his own thing. I never programmed him.

I hate the idea of making any of my children into a mini-me. That would be terrible.

We must first pray, that God would make us wise; before we can wish, he would make us happy.

In the endgame, an error can be decisive, and we are rarely presented with a second chance.

Im a little untidy, and my favorite color is gray, and Im always scurrying around in a panic.

Beauty is assailed from two directions - by the cult of ugliness in the arts, and by the cult of utility in everyday life.