Rules and school are tools for fools! I don't give two mules for rules.

One problem with being a leader, is that even among your friends you are alone, for it is you -- and you alone -- to whom the others look for final guidance.

May your adventures bring you closer together, even as they take you far away from home.

Is this what family is like: the feeling that everyone’s connected, that with one piece missing, the whole thing’s broken?

Children are capable of such open rudeness.

She announced her age right away, for children consider their ages every bit as important as their names.

I've only just arrived, Kate. It may surprise you to learn that you were my top priority.

Now listen, we need to be quiet as mice. No, quieter than that. As quiet as . . . as . . .” “Dead mice?” Reynie suggested. “Perfect, ” said Kate with an approving nod. “As quiet as dead mice.

It's not going to be over until we say so.

The missing aren't missing, they're only departed

Even if he did explain it, no one would believe him because no one would understand him. That's the downside to being a genius - just because you understand something doesn't mean anyone else will.

I MAY BE A HOGWARTS STUDENT" Hargirid paused angrily. "BUT I AM ALSO A SATANIST!

A true sage is simple like a child.

...every writer I had ever known wrote his best work when he had his back up against the wall and thought he would never write another word.

I did what my conscience told me to do, and you can't fail if you do that.

I don't think when I make love.

I just needed a job. Before being hired as an usher at the CBS Theater, I didn't even know there was a show business.

Perfect as the wing of a bird may be, it will never enable the bird to fly.

At first I was queasy; I'll never forget the sound of the scalpel cutting a body open. But it was so cool trying to work out how these people died.

It's been a mystery to me and a disappointment why conversation about health care reform hasn't turned more attention to the subject of food.

Putting women's traditional needs at the center of social planning is not reverse sexism. It's the best way to reverse the increasing economic vulnerability of men and women alike.