If you're not scared, she told me, it's not bravery.

Everyone tells you it's all right to cry, but not enough people say it's all right if you don't want people to know.

It's hard when you're missing your family, " Pip said, and started the motor. " You wake up every morning like someone took one of your legs.

It’s hard when you’re missing your family. You wake up every morning like someone took one of your legs.

Get scared later, and if you're scared now remember what Kit always said. If you're not scared, she told me, it's not bravery. And you want to be brave, don't you, Snicket?

We represent the true human condition, the one permanent victory over cruelty and chaos. . . . Our true home is the imagination, and our kingdom is the wide-open world.

When you find the sort of people who will show up to give you a ride exactly when they've promised to do so, hold on to them for dear life.

The trouble with being patient is that eventually you get tired of it.

It is unwise to make something permanent when the whole world is shifting.

But some secrets are so strange and so dangerous that showing them to people makes the strangeness and the danger pour into their lives like a dark, dark ink.

People who think nothing could go wrong are usually disappointed.

The products your life must have could be in the form books you have written from the values you have added to yourself.

When writing a book, don't think about who is going to see it. Write about how you feel in the moment. Don't let a good idea get away.

We're trying to do something so that when the average person uses Pinterest, it has to make the service better.

I have traveled with Jessy Dixon for the past several years and never have I been with an artists with more heart. He is the real thing.

It feel like winning the cup final, if that's what it feels like

I'm fine the way I am. There's nothing wrong with me.

You have to remember that I played longer than anybody else on the main tour; I played until I was 40, and then played another six years or so on the seniors tour.

Wear a crown of flowers on your head, let its roots reach your heart

Traveling did a great deal to me. I found that when I travel and just sit in the corner and watch, a million ideas come to me.

All personal breakthroughs begin with a change in beliefs.