We have lived too long. The great days are past.

You don’t learn about yourself by being alone, you learn about yourself from other people.

If there's a single lesson that life teaches us, it's that wishing doesn't make it so.

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

He who completes a quest does not merely find something. He becomes something.

The danger would be going back, or staying still. The only way out was through. The past was ruins, but the present was still in play.

I have no doubt there are magician psychopaths, and magician serial killers. I doubt Brakebills admissions is very good at screening for those.

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.

It's time to live with what we have and mourn what we lost.

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.

Don't take anyone's writing advice too seriously.

I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.

The poorer your self-esteem and the lower your self-confidence, the more easily negative feelings can overwhelm ordinary good sense.

Please to put a nickel, please to put a dime. How petitions trickle in at Christmas time!

O marriage! marriage! what a curse is thine, Where hands alone consent and hearts abhor.

As consumers we are incredibly discerning, we sense where has been great care in the design, and when there is cynicism and greed.

I'll tell you what the danger is for Europe. It's carrying out a cold war against Russia and pushing Russia into China's arms. That's the threat to Europe.

People in obedience to the Lord do not worry, do not fret, do not need to know all of the outcomes before they are willing to commit themselves.

Being broke is not a disgrace, it is only a catastrophe.

But dogs, which have no ability to sin nor moral conscience, do not have an ability to reject Jesus.

Some days success just means not giving up.