You killed my dog! Get your affairs in order.

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.

Goodness by its nature is lovable and love finds it impossible not to pursue goodness.

Beauty hath no lustre save when it gleameth through the crystal web that purity's fine fingers weave for it.

How do you know if you are a servant? By how you react when someone treats you as one.

Philosophy: Impersonal anxiety; refuge among anemic ideas.

Losing would be painful, but not as painful as knowing there was something else you could've done.

My definition of evil is unfriendliness.

Knowledge leads to unity, but ignorance to diversity.

Recall that people like to do what most people think it is right to do; recall too that people like to do what most people actually do.

A hero is somebody who voluntarily walks into the unknown.

It is often said that the earth belongs to the race, as if raw land was a boon, or gift.