Why, if its going to be allright, do we see it getting worse every day?

I try to remind myself that we are never promised anything, and that what control we can exert is not over the events that befall us but how we address ourselves to them.

He says I'm beautiful as a red tomato

Wouldn't it be strange, she thought, to have a blue sky? But she liked the way it looked. It would be beautiful - a blue sky.

The trouble with anger is, it gets hold of you. And then you aren't the master of yourself anymore. Anger is. And when anger is the boss, you get unintended consequences.

A person who thought he knew everything simply didn’t understand how much there was to know.

People find a way through just about anything.

When someone has been mean to you, why would you want to be good to them?' 'You wouldn't want to. That's what makes it hard. You do it anyway. Being good is hard. Much harder than being bad.

What you need to learn, children, is the difference between right and wrong in every area of life. And once you learn the difference, you must always choose the right.

It would be something that another person had written down without understanding its significance; just a sentence or two that would be like a flash of light.

A darkness different from Ember's, but just as frightening.

She decided that day to study Russian, the language of violence, terror, and absurdity. She knew she would never be bored.

Indolence and stupidity are first cousins.

Pointing fingers, trying to catch each other in scandal does not bring honor to this House.

One person who has mastered life is better than a thousand persons who have mastered only the contents of books, but no one can get anything out of life without God.

I learned courage from Buddha, Jesus, Lincoln, Einstein, and Mr. Cary Grant.

Psychological breakdowns are actually breakthroughs to enlightenment.

My father was a very difficult man.

The truth isn't all things to all people all of the time.

I have accomplished everything I set out to accomplish when I started playing the sport at 7. And probably even more.

Look on beauty, and you shall see 'tis purchased by the weight.