You can be only what you give yourself the power to be.

there is no moment more precious than the exact moment you are living now

There is no dignity in a crying toothpick.

There are some things your mind has been hiding from you.

You seem to be attracted to trouble," he said. "Yeah, she's real pretty," I replied. "Your tongue is sharper than mine ever was." I stuck out my tongue and tried to look at the tip of it.

What was that you gave me to eat?" Winter panicked. A Filler Crisp," Clover said, his eyes seventy percent concerned and thirty percent mischievous.

That said, I, Beck Phillips, take full responsibility for being stuck in m y school's pitch-black venting system with my friend Jason, behind me and a garbage bag full of angry bees in front of me.

There is no relationship in life that comes with the promise of zero pain.

We can only be what we give ourselves the power to be.

impossible is not a word

I'm man enough to know when to scream.

It is not very difficult to build world peace. We just have to be kind to each other and treat each other with great care.

For things to be right on the outside, they first have to be right on the inside.

I trust Canadians' capacity to determine who will sit in their Parliament.

Nobody can tell about this California climate. One minit its hot and the next minit its cold, so a person never knows what to hock.

The silence is death. It comes each day with its shock to sit on my shoulder, a white bird, and peck at the black eyes and the vibrating red muscle of my mouth.

Zen approaches it from the practical side of life-that is, to work out Enlightenment in life itself.

The sweet accident of coincidence is the best foundation on which to build.

Perhaps the single most important thing that we can do to undo the harm we have done is to fix firmly in our minds the thought: the earth is alive.

I've realized skinny isn't necessarily attractive. Guys like girls with curves.

For bees are captious folk / And quick to turn against the lubber's touch.