Your pimples are the Lord's way of chastising you. Now eat your pie.

Quiet people have the loudest minds.

Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.

The water was glassy and calm, still candy-colored in the afterglow of sunset.

A life without love is like a tree without fruit.

The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool.

Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.

Outside, daylight was bleeding slowly toward dusk.

You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.

People who try hard to do the right thing always seem mad.

The place where you made your stand never mattered. Only that you were there... and still on your feet.

Even the good things from our pasts still only belonged in the past

I don’t think you can just choose to believe in God. You either do or you don’t, and no matter what camp you’re in, it would take something life-changing to truly lead you into the other one.

But an inferior talent can only be graceful when it's carrying inferior ideas. And the more narrowly you can look at a thing the more entertaining you can be about it.

Religion of Blue CircleTo bring and give a lesson, is to leave the last lesson not pronounced.Amen, Petra Cecilia Maria HermansAugust 29, 2016AmenGod

Welfare makes you dependent upon someone to take care of you.

Adventuring can be for the ordinary person with ordinary qualities, such as I regard myself.

I give you this toast: To the Hobbits. May they outlast the Sarumans and see spring again in the trees.

This year - today - I am repenting of my dependence on fossil fuels.

For they, the philosophers, were considered teachers of right living, which is far more excellent, since to speak well belongs only to a few, but to live well belongs to all.

Long flights give you more time to reflect, look around, experience your surroundings. I got to know the nooks and crannies on Mir very, very well.