The taller you stand, the more possibilities you see.

Through every turn in life, through every little twist of fate, there is an opportunity to take a step back, find and reinvent yourself, and come back a bigger, stronger, better you.

The difference between those that can and those that can’t is attitude.

It becomes a lot easier to understand people when you realize that not everyone wants or is after the same thing.

One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.

The map is not the territory, " Snicket's chaperon advises him. "That's an expression which means the world does not match the picture in our heads.

It's a good feeling to have something to stand for in any part of your life. It's like personal integrity.

If Iraq fails to fully comply, the United States and other nations will disarm Saddam Hussein.

There are no magics or elves / Or timely godmothers to guide us. We are lost, must / Wizard a track through our own screaming weed.

There's nothing glamorous about being dead.

Once the current of awareness of the self is set afoot, it becomes everlasting and continuous by intensification.

Just drawing back and drawing in; becoming narcissistic.

I love a guy who can make me laugh.

Be yourself and your readers will follow you anywhere. Try to commit an act of writing and they will jump overboard to get away.