Sticks and stones may break your bones, but Chinese throwing stars get you a dozen stitches.

The building was on fire, and it wasn’t my fault.

When everything goes to hell, the people who stand by you without flinching - they are your family.

Laugh whenever you can. Keeps you from killing yourself when things are bad. That and vodka.

I've always felt that the best whips and chains are in the mind. With a little creativity, the physical ones are hardly necessary.

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I checked my gear, my pockets, my shoelaces, and realized that I had crossed the line between making sure I was ready and trying to postpone the inevitable.

I'd made the vampire cry. Great. I felt like a real superhero. Harry Dresden, breaker of monsters' hearts.

Though I walk through the valley of the shadow of trauma, I will fear no concussion.

I died. I died and someone made a clerical error and I am in Heaven.

There is the world that should be and the world that is. We live in one and must create the other.

You have peace, when you make it with yourself.

Peace is not something you wish for, it is something you make, something you are, something you do, and something you give away.

Everything about a person may not be perfect, but there are somethings in every person that deserve our respect.

A true love can cross through your legacy and heritage.

The child should have the advantage of ignorance as well as of knowledge, and is fortunate if he gets his share of neglect and exposure.

It's no accident that Op. 111 attracts literary attention. Though it's music, it doesn't quite behave like it. It seems to be charged with meaning, to communicate in symbols, ciphers, clues.

Ah, Los Angeles! Dust and fog of your lonely streets, I am no longer lonely. Just you wait, all of you ghosts of this room, just you wait, because it will happen, as sure as there's a God in heaven.

When good luck knocks at the door, let him in and keep him there.

Once you have established Your inner contact With your inner Pilot, Your life's transformation-victory Will not remain a far cry.

My favorite book is the last one printed, which is always better than those that were published earlier.