Is human nature to believe that other places and other times are better than the here and now.

Remember, the past need not become our future as well.

The problem with being clever, Serene thought with a sigh, is that everyone assumes you're always planning something.

To live is to have worries and uncertainties. Keep them inside, and they will destroy you for certain--leaving behind a person so callused that emotion can find no root in his heart.

Pain los[es] its power when other things bec[o]me more important.

To their simple, degenerate minds there was only one thing to do when faced by a God more powerful than their own: Convert.Brandon Sanderson(Elantris)

It's beneficial to have a reputation for honesty, if only so that one can lie at crucial moments.

It's beneficial to have a reputation for honesty, if only so that one could lie at crucial moments.

There was nothing more bitter than a soul who had had its chance and thrown it away.

a depressed person doesn't want you to try and cheer them up. It makes us sick.

Oh my lovely princess, "Raoden whispered. "You probably mean well, but handing these people food is the worst thing you could do to them."-Brandon Sanderson(Elantris)

Ladies, stress shows on your face. Happiness is the true beauty we

Good friends good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.

I think I was born with the impression that what happened in books was much more reasonable, and interesting, and real, in some ways, than what happened in life.

I think we all [americans] think we're a special country. But the question is, what - what call does that give us?

I think in America we have some really serious issues we're going to confront as a nation.

Anyone can make anyone else look bad if they really want to pull things apart enough.

I'm really happy in my life.

I feel that an understanding could be reached with Germany which would result in a lasting peace with Europe and believe that a German victory is preferable to a British and Soviet victory.

It's not the name they call you, it's the name you answer to.

Why do guys insist on wearing those odious jeans with their rear ends hanging down around their ankles? Do they really think it's hot?