Worry is fear in disguise. And fear will eat you from the inside out if you let it.

The building was on fire, and it wasn’t my fault.

When everything goes to hell, the people who stand by you without flinching - they are your family.

Laugh whenever you can. Keeps you from killing yourself when things are bad. That and vodka.

I've always felt that the best whips and chains are in the mind. With a little creativity, the physical ones are hardly necessary.

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I checked my gear, my pockets, my shoelaces, and realized that I had crossed the line between making sure I was ready and trying to postpone the inevitable.

I'd made the vampire cry. Great. I felt like a real superhero. Harry Dresden, breaker of monsters' hearts.

Though I walk through the valley of the shadow of trauma, I will fear no concussion.

I died. I died and someone made a clerical error and I am in Heaven.

There is the world that should be and the world that is. We live in one and must create the other.

A dream with a deadline is a goal.

If you were not a sinful, polluted, helpless, and miserable creature, this Savior would not be suited to you, and you would not be comprehended in his gracious invitations to the children of men.

When somebody promises to do something, you have to think about whether that's something that you would be willing to see happen because the powers are simply too vast.

I'm not really a femme fatale.

People ask me how far I've come. And I tell them twelve feet: from the audience to the stage.

I write for teens partially to work out whatever it was that I needed to from my own teenage years.

Self-confidence results, first, from exact knowledge; second, the ability to impart that knowledge.

I really think that people have to think safety; taking risks for higher yield is a bad idea once you're in late or latish middle age.

This is why I say that the individual's most potent weapon is a stubborn belief in the triumph of common decency.

Growing up, I thought wearing a suit was a burden.