When you find the sort of people who will show up to give you a ride exactly when they've promised to do so, hold on to them for dear life.

Everyone tells you it's all right to cry, but not enough people say it's all right if you don't want people to know.

It's hard when you're missing your family, " Pip said, and started the motor. " You wake up every morning like someone took one of your legs.

It’s hard when you’re missing your family. You wake up every morning like someone took one of your legs.

Get scared later, and if you're scared now remember what Kit always said. If you're not scared, she told me, it's not bravery. And you want to be brave, don't you, Snicket?

We represent the true human condition, the one permanent victory over cruelty and chaos. . . . Our true home is the imagination, and our kingdom is the wide-open world.

The trouble with being patient is that eventually you get tired of it.

If you're not scared, she told me, it's not bravery.

It is unwise to make something permanent when the whole world is shifting.

But some secrets are so strange and so dangerous that showing them to people makes the strangeness and the danger pour into their lives like a dark, dark ink.

People who think nothing could go wrong are usually disappointed.

A man dreams of a miracle and wakes up to loaves of bread.

Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts. And never hope more than you work.

Does light go faster when it goes downhill?

The way you live your days is the way you live your life.

If we aren't willing to pay a price for our values, then we should ask ourselves whether we truly believe in them at all.

What I have been taught, I have forgotten; what I know, I have guessed.

We would be false to our trust if we allowed the time it takes to give effect to constitutional rights to be used as the very reason for taking away those rights.

A saint is someone who has been very selfless and, over a period of lifetimes, generated a tremendous amount of good karma, which has caused them to enter into very lovely states of mind.

Money can't buy happiness but it's more comfortable to cry in a Bugatti than on a bicycle.

A witty quote proves nothing.