From the earliest age on, even as we toy with it, we instinctively know there is something mighty about the truth, that it is an immobile, looming star. We grow to crave it.

At the end of life, at the end of YOUR life, what essence emerges? What have you filled the world with? In remembering you, what words will others choose?

No one ever went to their deathbed saying, 'You know, I wish I'd eaten more rice cakes.

Peace means no one is worried about anyone else's cookie...in this moment we are all quietly content with the cookies we have.

cozy+smell of pancakes-alarm clock=weekend

It often feels like I'm not so much living for the present as I am busy making memories for the future.

It would be difficult to convince me that leaning has no effect whatsoever on the outcome of my bowling.

I have not survived against all odds. I have not lived to tell. I have not witnessed the extraordinary. This is my story.

I am a slow reader, and fast eater; I wish it were the other way around.

I wish I had eaten more rice cakes.

If you want to grow up to be a big, strong pea, you have to eat your candy," Papa Pea would say.

i hope thatwhoever you arewherever you areand no matter howyou are feelingyou will always have somethingto smile about.

Strangers are endearing because you don’t know them yet.

Our attitude towards ourselves should be to be insatiable in learning and towards others to be tireless in teaching.

Remember that we are not gods who can fashion events to our desires. We are mere mortals who must learn not to contend with life but to yield to it.

A conscience can be a dangerous thing

Then come here, " he said, a bit redundantly, as he had already pulled her with him into an armchair and curled her up in his arms. "Tell me what I can do to help you feel be

I'm talking to myself in two different personas now. I'm reaching for a full-throttle meltdown and why not? Why stop halfway? Why not just go for it, jump on and ride the wave?

The Madden Curse has really taken on a life of its own. People just love talking about it, and it is what it is, but I look at it as a challenge

I grew up in a big family. You have to learn to get along with each other... get things done as a family.

We never pay anyone Dane-geld, No matter how trifling the cost; For the end of that game is oppression and shame, And the nation that plays it is lost!