Peace is not something you wish for, it's something you make

We could learn a lot from crayons; some are sharp, some are pretty, some are dull, while others bright, some have weird names, but they all have learned to live together in the same box.

Don't worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you.

If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire, then you got a problem. Everything else is inconvenience.

It will be a great day when our schools have all the money they need, and our air force has to have a bake-sale to buy a bomber.

The examined life is no picnic.

The winding down of summer puts me in a heavy philosophical mood.

Ignorance and power and pride are a deadly mixture, you know.

All I ever needed to know I learned in kindergarten. Share everything ... Don't hit people ... Clean up your own mess.

Why is love easy? I don’t know. And the raccoons don’t say.

Love is a fabric which never fades, no matter how often it is washed in the water of adversity and grief.

Elend: I kind of lost track of time…Breeze: For two hours?Elend: There were books involved.

Our port facilities should have the freedom to levy a market-based container fee which will provide new revenue and make our system more equitable to the American taxpayer and American manufacturers.

Let your body take care of you.

Nothing remains beautiful and interesting except thought, because the thought is the life.

Seek on earth what you have found in heaven.

I must make up my mind which is right – society or I.

What I've always tried to find in my books are points at which the private lives of the characters, and also my own, intersect with the public life of the culture.

A novel is balanced between a few true impressions and the multitude of false ones that make up most of what we call life.

In a way, editing is not unlike the movies. The best books, just like the best movies, are a collaboration. They're only as good as the compromise made between the artists involved.

One way to find your place is like the rain, a million requests for lodging, one that wins, finds your cheek: you find your home.