Even as zombies, ridiculous prom gowns were the downfall of teenage girls, crippling them at the knees.

I felt bad for the girls in my school, who flocked to prom like it was the second coming of Christ, complete with double-rainbows and unicorns.

Seek to exceed your own expectations.

It is illegal to yell “fire” in a crowded theater. If there is a fire, please yell something else instead, like “Flames!” or “Smoke maker!” or “Bad hot!

The bee's life is like a magic well: the more you draw from it, the more it fills with water

You are shaped by Your thinking. The outcome of your life cannot be better than your pattern of thought

C.S. Lewis had come to demand of his nightly prayers a "realization, " "a certain vividness of the imagination and the affectations" – a sure recipe for sleeplessness and misery.

I look away so that my eyes don't betray the hurt I feel

Firmness of purpose is one of the most necessary sinews of character and one of the best instruments of success. Without it genius wastes its efforts in a maze of inconsistencies.

When I get older, I don't think I'll like to have wrinkles, or a big jelly belly. I cannot have it.

When you fall ill, people send you CDs. Very often, in my experience, these are by Leonard Cohen

Praise they that will times past, I joy to see My selfe now live: this age best pleaseth mee.