Perhaps I should just bury myself and become a diamond after thousands of years of intense pressure

Miracles are like pimples, because once you start looking for them you find more than you ever dreamed you'd see.

The real Santa Claus is at the mall.

Like many people who dress in black, the lump of coal was interested in becoming an artist.

You're not lost, Kaylee. You can't ever be lost, because I'll always know where you are. And if I'm not there with you, I'm on my way, and nothing standing between us will be standing for very long.

You are never left out from having the experience of love. You can always give and receive love right from where you are at. It's always up to you.

And then I became aware of all the magnificent silk wrapped around my body, and had the feeling I might drown in beauty. At that moment, beauty itself struck me as a kind of painful melancholy.

Adversity removes the friends prosperity has harvested.

It is better to have a relationship with someone who cheats on you than with someone who does not flush the toilet.

In chess, as played by a good player, logic and imagination must go hand in hand, compensating each other.

Cheyenne snatched back her phone. "Someone took her brave pills today." "And washed them down with stupid juice," Casper added, cocking his gun.

I recommend my students not to be professional unless they really have to be. I tell them, 'If you love music, sell Hoovers or be a plumber. Do something useful with your life.'

The godly have some good in them, therefore the devil afflicts them; and some evil in them, therefore God afflicts them.

There are good, God-fearing persons who still fall into certain faults, and it is better to bear with them than to be hard on them.