In a just cause it is right to be confident.

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.

Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.

The dice of Zeus always fall luckily.

Always desire to learn something useful

Believe that a further shore is reachable from here.

All men make mistakes, but a good man yields when he knows his course is wrong, and repairs the evil. The only crime is pride.

Children are the anchors of a mother's life.

Heaven ne'er helps the men who will not act.

There is nothing more hateful than bad advice.

Go then if you must, but remember, no matter how foolish your deeds, those who love you will love you still.

Outside, snow solidified itself into graceful forms. The peace of winter stars seemed permanent.

The world truly is my oyster, the difficulty is... I haven't discovered the ALL of the tools to shuck it yet.

My wife and I just celebrated our twelfth anniversary. I'm Catholic so there's no real possibility of divorce. I'm Irish - so there is the possibility of murder.

We who have been true readers all our life fully realize the enormous of our being which we owe to authors.

Ajihad: You are an enigma, Eragon, a quandary that no one knows how to solve.

Find the right questions. You don't invent the answers, you reveal the answers.

When I talk to young people who want to go to Broadway or whatever, I say, "The highs are very high and the lows are very low and then there is a lot in between."

It's all the same for me, how I teach, how I write, how I think.

Women will have all the power one day anyway. It's just a matter of time.

The very idea of an infinite in place would be a contradiction in terms, as a place must begin and continue in time.