Sometimes, Reynie, trouble itself is the key. - Mr. Benedict

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?

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

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

Music awaken our soul.

It does not matter how long it takes to reach the goal. With persistent focus, commitment and enthusiasm, you will make it a reality.

The Congress will push me to raise taxes, and I'll say no, and they'll push, and I'll say no, and they'll push again and I'll say to them, read my lips, no new taxes.

Reason and happiness are like other flowers; they wither when plucked.

If you don't like your job, you don't strike! You just go in every day, and do it really half assed. That's the American way.

Dogs love company. They place it first on their short list of needs.

Those things are inextricable bound up in my mind, with words I make an image and vice versa.

Legend adheres to artists whose deaths seem the corollaries of their works.

Spirit, God, gathers unformed thoughts into their proper channels, and unfolds these thoughts, even as He opens the petals of a holy purpose in order that the purpose may appear.

It's a hell of a relief. Especially for a dude like me who is so hands on and I like to pretty much all the way hip-hop. So it's difficult when you're dealing with the majors.