Fear lives in the head. And courage lives in the heart. The job is to get from one to the other.

The night is a strawberry.

Myrna could spend happy hours browsing bookcases. She felt if she could just get a good look at a person’s bookcase and their grocery cart, she’d pretty much know who they were.

The four sayings that lead to wisdom: I was wrong I'm sorry I don't know I need help

Life is change. If you aren't growing and evolving, you're standing still, and the rest of the world is surging ahead.

No good ever comes from putting up walls. What people mistake for safety is in fact captivity. And few things thrive in captivity.

But you want murderous feelings? Hang around librarians," confided Gamache. "All that silence. Gives them ideas.

Better to accept the wretched truth than struggle, twisting to make a wish a reality.

When someone stabs you it's not your fault that you feel pain.

Where there is love there is courage, where there is courage there is peace, where there is peace there is God. And when you have God, you have everything.

It's a shame that creativity and sloth look exactly the same.

Because supposedly those who forget the past are condemned to repeat it.

Tolerating a wrong attitude toward another person causes you to follow the spirit of the devil, no matter how saintly you are.

With a good music and a good dance, you enhance your physical, emotional, spiritual and mental well-being.

You live and then you die, I thought. It's good to have some good times.

As for hobbies, people with stimulating hobbies suffer from the most noxious of despairs since they are tranquilized in their despair.

If you want to be original just try being yourself, because God has never made two people exactly alike.

Why must I be lonely in love?

We are far more liable to catch the vices than the virtues of our associates.

I think people have different definitions of team unity. My definition is doing whatever it takes to win, what makes a great team; it's performance on the field, respect on the field.

Every girl wanna hold my chain when I f#%k their brains out on the Mustang