Walls don't fall without effort.

When you truly start to care about someone you become vulnerable to all sorts of things.

It does, Tennyson, because there’s a fine line between confidence and arrogance. There’s a fine line between being assertive and being a bully. And you’re on the wrong side of both lines.

Happiness is not a state of being. Happiness is a vector, it is movement.

So is darkness better than a heartfelt lie?

The thing was, if I had found a way to escape- even for just a little while- I knew the pain would be there waiting for me when I got back.

...You know something, don't you?""I know lots of things--your inquiry needs to be more specific.""Just answer the question.""True/false or multiple choice?

Once in a while our school has half days, and the teachers spend the afternoon 'in service, ' which I think must be a group therapy for having to deal with us.

Those eyes of his just look up at me, pupils dilated in the diffused lights of the room. Wide, black pools, seeking out galaxies.

A master is one who can effortlessly alternate between a free mind and a controlled mind.

I have been a teacher myself all my life. I have an intense passion to share with people. Our only salvation is in knowledge, in learning.

And a wheat thin the size of Lake Tahoe.

Until we question our stressful thoughts, we remain victims of the images in our head.

It was like him, too, to love her and admit to it before he knew if she loved him. Maybe only mortals expected to barter their hearts.

I just happen to think people are better off doing something they actually like.

Choose the whole of your environment, things and events, based upon the value, meaning and function they hold. Do not allow obligation or immediacy to bind you to physical things or specific actions.

If a person's religious ideas correspond not with your own, love him nevertheless

Saddam was tranquillised when captured ... He would be a lion even when caged. Every honest person who knows Saddam knows that he is firm and powerful.

A family on the throne is an interesting idea. It brings down the pride of sovereignty to the level of petty life.