No great inner event befalls those who summon it not

There is a courage of happiness as well as a courage of sorrow.

Do we not all spend the greater part of our lives under the shadow of an event that has not yet come to pass?.

An act of goodness is of itself an act of happiness.

Happiness is rarely absent; it is we that know not of its presence.

If the bee disappeared off the face of the earth, man would only have four years left to live.

How strangely do we diminish a thing as soon as we try to express it in words.

The living are just the dead on holiday

At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard the past.

We are never the same with others as when we are alone. We are different, even when we are in the dark with them.

Many a happiness in life, a many a disaster, is due to chance alone; but the peace within us can never be governed by chance.

Oooh, sneaky, I thought. Must be how normal mothers operate instead of yelling.

You can tell a lot about a society by what it fears.

He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare And he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere.

I wanted to help raise awareness, so I created an environmental foundation called Just Within Reach.

If liberals think they are losing elections because of the conservative bias in the media, they may as well give up right now.

When I was starting out, I did not do short fiction well, because I kept wanting to write books.

Water and stone Flesh and bone Night and morn Rose and thorn Tree and wind Heart and mind

Some people are going to be impatient no matter what. If I wrote two books a year, someone out there would be pissed I wasn't writing three.

He mighta spent a couple years under the arena training young wrestlers.

And moody madness laughing wild Amid severest woe.