Though the funny thing about never being asked for anything is that after a while you start to feel like maybe you don’t have anything worth giving.

You didn’t get the quest you wanted, you got the one you could do.

That was the thing about the world: it wasn't that things were harder than you thought they were going to be, it was that they were hard in ways that you didn't expect.

By now he had learned enough to know that when he was getting annoyed at somebody else, it was usually because there was something that he himself should be doing, and he wasn't doing it.

Being a hero, the man had observed, is largely a matter of knowing one’s cues.

Everybody wanted to be the hero of their own story. Nobody wanted to be comic relief.

Blue screen of death: she'd crashed his system. Oh, well. Boys were so unstable that way, full of buggy, self-contradictory code, pathetically unoptimized.

Earth or Fillory, did it even matter? What was the huge conundrum? Everywhere you looked there was so much richness, you could never exhaust it.

What makes you think what happened to you on Earth wasn't an adventure?

You’re saying the gods don’t have free will.” “The power to make mistakes, ” Penny said. “Only we have that. Mortals.

Living in a castle is objectively romantic.

Without visions and written goals, what direction are we going to head?

Is that clear?" said Borcht "as clear as pea soup" I said

Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people.

Let us savour the swift delights of the most beautiful of our days!

If I wanted to honor you, I´d let you retire. I am planing to make you run the kingdom and fight the wars while I eat and drink

Meditation is the process of understanding your own mind.

I'm not making films for middle aged journalists, who are mostly men. I make films that hopefully entertain people, where they can learn something about life.

When our opponents on the Left have no serious ideas of their own, they resort to emotional appeals that play up Americans’ fears about the future.

The root of compassion, is compassion for oneself.

I saw the charter as an expression of my long-held view that the subject of law must be the individual human being; the law must permit the individual to fulfil himself or herself to the utmost.