A real diamond is never perfect.

Open your eyes and see what you can with them before they close forever.

Time is a slippery thing: lose hold of it once, and its string might sail out of your hands forever.

To say a person is a happy person or an unhappy person is ridiculous. We are a thousand different kinds of people every hour.

So how, children, does the brain, which lives without a spark of light, build for us a world full of light?

My preference is for prose with more silence in it, language that contains more pockets of strangeness.

Watching teething babies is like watching over a thermonuclear reactor-it is best done in shifts, by well-rested people.

It's embarrassingly plain how inadequate language is.

Anyone who has spent a few nights in a tent during a storm can tell you: The world doesn't care all that much if you live or die.

Leave home, leave the country, leave the familiar. Only then can routine experience--buying bread, eating vegetables, even saying hello--become new all over again.

For me, writing historical fiction is all about finding a balance between reading, traveling, looking, imagining, and dreaming.

Don’t obsess over having the 'latest' version of a product. For there was a time that the previous version was the latest.

Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.

You have to promote yourself you have to have this smile on your face all the time and be this nice guy - which I am!

Cause I lit him on fire,” I shrugged and brushed dust from my pants.

It was no true prayer to beg forgiveness while choosing to sin.

Compassion is the only one of the human emotions the Lord permitted Himself and it has carried the divine flavor ever since.

Individually, people are finding that a simpler lifestyle provides greater satisfaction than relentless pursuit of materialism.

One of the exhilarating parts of falling in love is discovering new things about one another, and seeing the world from a different point of view.

If you're not having fun it's not worth doing.

The proud are ever most provoked by pride.