Tell me when you want to pick it up again." "Tell me when Satan starts a snowball fight." "I'll do that. Lunch?

I want you to have big dreams, big goals. I want you to strive to achieve them. But I don't want to see you beating yourself up every time you make a mistake.

when times are tough, the weak bail and the tough get creative.

Wow. The guy can make me feel stupid even when he's telling me I don't have to let him make me feel stupid.

The rottweiler stood his ground and waited for me to take the next step in the dance of ritualized intimidation. Instead, I leaped at him. Screw ritual. Now was not the time to stand on ceremony.

Kids who don't eavesdrop on adult conversations are doomed to a childhood of ignorance.

Remembering. Forgetting. I'm not sure which is worse.

A name is so important. A surname connects you to your past, to your family. Even a given name has meaning - why did your parents pick that particular one?

First you buy me a mocha. Then you let me help you hide a body. Now you take me to a biker clubhouse. Best. Day. Ever.

He was trying to tell me something.' Derek snorted. 'Aren’t they all? Must be a rule in the ghost handbook—if in danger of evaporating, make sure you’re in the middle of a dire pronouncement.

I grew up writing about the paranormal, and I blame too many Saturday mornings watching Scooby Doo.

The power of Allah: no sound, no shape, no form. But when it manifests, none can resist it.

I love being alone. I learned that from my father, I think, who loved his own company.

That's maturity-when you realize that you've finally arrived at a state of ignorance as profound as your parents.

Swans live wherever there is water, and leave the place where water dries up; let not a man act so - and comes and goes as he pleases.

things cannot be expected to turn up of themselves. We must in a measure assist to turn them up

I want to work with non-profits that stimulate growth to the community. Whether it is economic growth, intellectual, or freedom.

By the end, everybody had a label - pig, liberal, radical, revolutionary... If you had everything but a gun, you were a radical but not a revolutionary.

Past violence is detrimental to our present action, and it is not in the name of principles that we denounce it, but in the name of efficiency.

For those who are going to learn from books, learning the art of reading would seem to be indispensable.

What the world needs more than anything are Bodhisattvas of peace, lawyers, politicians, teachers working tirelessly for the enlightenment of themselves and others.