Those who don't understand their personal legends will fail to comprehend its teachings.

There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.

The simple things are also the most extraordinary things, and only the wise can see them.

So, I love you because the entire universe conspired to help me find you.

Every blessing ignored becomes a curse.

When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.

It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.

When we first begin fighting for our dreams, we have no experience and make many mistakes. The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and get up eight times.

One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving.

When each day is the same as the next, it’s because people fail to recognize the good things that happen in their lives every day that the sun rises.

I'm an adventurer, looking for treasure

Genevieve hunched her shoulders against the storm of sound and fury and struggled to imagine a worse sort of hell. Widdershins, of course, seemed perfectly happy, but Widdershins was weird.

I personally like being unique. I like being my own person with my own style and my own opinions and my own toothbrush.

For more irresponsible that human beings can be, nature always finds (not always healthy) a way to teach us how to be treated.

Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president or any other public official.

Profound subject matter can be encompassed in small space - for proof, look at any sonnet by Shakespeare!

Without poetry the soul and heart of man starves and dies.

But teleological considerations can lead no further than to a belief and a hope. They do not give certainty.

Politicians are terrified of losing touch with folks back home but content to be clueless about governments failure to fix real problems.

I always write a story in one sitting.

I didn't know you had to change diapers so often. I couldn't believe it - we must change them 10 times a day - each. So that's 20 diapers a piece a day.