Peter glanced up at the stars and a wicked smile lit his face. "Time to play," he whispered to the stars and winked. And the stars winked back, for Peter's smile is a most contagious thing.

Go and play. Run around. Build something. Break something. Climb a tree. Get dirty. Get in some trouble. Have some fun.

There's a reason why we're born with brains in our heads, not rocks.

Men who fear demons see demons everywhere.

That's the spirit, one part brave, three parts fool.

If you don't learn to laugh at life it'll surely kill you, that I know.

But Peter had seen too much, knew too well that men-kind didn't need an excuse to be cruel and murder one another.

Everything comes with a price. Everything. Some things just cost more than others.

Both sides so blinded by their fear and hate of each other that they couldn't see they were all fighting for the same thing.

Demon or not, it didn't matter, suffering was everywhere he looked.

Had not enough gone wrong?

Love yourself, even a little bit each day, and your life will bloom into infinite joy.

I get many letters every day from people who got married because they wanted their own selfish needs satisfied, and have only later come to realize that this does not work.

When people die, ' she said softly, 'It doesn't necessarily mean you're ready to give them up.

Whether you are in an eight-hundred-square-foot home or living in a dream house on a lake, contentment is found on the way.

On sighting mathematicians poetry should unhook the algebra from their minds and replace it with poetry; on sighting poets it should unhook poetry from their minds and replace it with algebra.

I have a lot of empathy for women who fit their writing into the crevices of their too-busy lives, as I once did.

At twenty-five, girls begin to talk about being old maids, but secretly resolve that they never will. At thirty, they say nothing about it, but quietly accept the fact.

Christians remind me of schoolboys who want to look up the answers to their math problems in the back of the book rather than work them through.

If we win, I'm happy. The rest of it is just stuff.

Strong leaders encourage you to do things for your own benefit, not just theirs.