No good ever comes from putting up walls. What people mistake for safety is in fact captivity. And few things thrive in captivity.

The night is a strawberry.

Myrna could spend happy hours browsing bookcases. She felt if she could just get a good look at a person’s bookcase and their grocery cart, she’d pretty much know who they were.

The four sayings that lead to wisdom: I was wrong I'm sorry I don't know I need help

Life is change. If you aren't growing and evolving, you're standing still, and the rest of the world is surging ahead.

Fear lives in the head. And courage lives in the heart. The job is to get from one to the other.

But you want murderous feelings? Hang around librarians," confided Gamache. "All that silence. Gives them ideas.

Better to accept the wretched truth than struggle, twisting to make a wish a reality.

When someone stabs you it's not your fault that you feel pain.

Where there is love there is courage, where there is courage there is peace, where there is peace there is God. And when you have God, you have everything.

It's a shame that creativity and sloth look exactly the same.

The American and Russian capabilities in space science and technology mesh

Each person must live their life as a model for others.

A gift - be it a present, a kind word or a job done with care and love - explains itself!... and if receivin' it embarrasses you, it's because your 'thanks box' is warped.

It takes a surprisingly large amount of intelligence to be a professional idiot.

You are not an agnostic.....You are just a fat slob who is too lazy to go to Mass.

What is Atlas Obscura? So, it was a small digital media company. It's an atlas, it's literally like, an atlas of places, wonderful, unusual places.

When I see a large group of people, I wonder how many of them will eventually require autopsies.

I am my best self when I have super short hair. That’s when I feel most like me and most confidant.

Life is glorious, but life is also wretched. It is both...Life is glorious, but life is also wretched. It is both.

The smallest task, well done, becomes a miracle of achievement