To live is to have worries and uncertainties. Keep them inside, and they will destroy you for certain--leaving behind a person so callused that emotion can find no root in his heart.

Remember, the past need not become our future as well.

The problem with being clever, Serene thought with a sigh, is that everyone assumes you're always planning something.

Pain los[es] its power when other things bec[o]me more important.

To their simple, degenerate minds there was only one thing to do when faced by a God more powerful than their own: Convert.Brandon Sanderson(Elantris)

It's beneficial to have a reputation for honesty, if only so that one can lie at crucial moments.

It's beneficial to have a reputation for honesty, if only so that one could lie at crucial moments.

There was nothing more bitter than a soul who had had its chance and thrown it away.

a depressed person doesn't want you to try and cheer them up. It makes us sick.

Oh my lovely princess, "Raoden whispered. "You probably mean well, but handing these people food is the worst thing you could do to them."-Brandon Sanderson(Elantris)

Is human nature to believe that other places and other times are better than the here and now.

Laziness builds walls and fences that keep the mind under control.

When too many Americans don't vote or participate, some see apathy and despair. I see disappointment and even outrage. And I believe that out of this frustration can come hope and action.

We have arrived at that point of time in which we are forced to see our own humiliation, as a nation, and that a progression in this line cannot be a productive of happiness, private or public.

I love waking up in the morning. It makes me feel really excited.

Satan has been the best friend the Church has ever had, as He has kept it in business all these years!

Charity is the drowning of justice in the craphole of mercy.

Focus on someone else’s problems for a change, I instructed myself. You need the practice. From now on you’ll have to live in a world you didn’t make up. Horrible thought.

Every time you are willing to say “Yes” to everything on your path, you express the hero inside of you.

Happiness is not a destination. It is a mood, it is not permanent. It comes and goes and if people thought that way then maybe people would find happiness more often.

To be honest, it is boring to talk about winning.