The purpose of freedom is to create it for others.

Without heroes, we are all plain people and don't know how far we can go.

There comes a time in a man's life when to get where he has to go - if there are no doors or windows he walks through a wall.

First drafts are for learning what your story is about.

Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.

Teach yourself to work in uncertainty.

Life is a tragedy full of joy.

The wild begins where you least expect it, one step off your normal course

We can't all be friends and relatives as the world is; most of us have to be strangers.

The whole history of baseball has the quality of mythology.

I work with language. I love the flowers of afterthought.

The more a person pushes others away, the clearer it becomes he is in need of love the most.

Every person has a life mission to fulfill. Never attempt to destroy what God has put in another person to do. You don't know God's plans, but Satan will most certainly use you to stop his plans.

Cowards drown in a pond. The extraordinary flourish in the middle of the ocean.

Don't think that your first love has to be your only love.

One in four of us will have a mental illness at some point. That is a lot of people.

God is merciful to all, as he has been to you; he is first a father, then a judge.

The artist who does not feel completely satisfied by elegant lines, by harmonious colors, and by a beautiful succession of chords does not understand the art of music.

I've lived this long because I didn't die.

Harry Dresden. Saving the world, one act of random destruction at a time.

It's all right. You guys in New York City can't get a hole in the ground fixed, and it's five years later, so let's be fair.