Is it useful to feel fear, because it prepares you for nasty events, or is it useless, because nasty events will occur whether you are frightened or not?

Friends can make you feel that the world is smaller and less sneaky than it really is, because you know people who have similar experiences.

everything happens for a reason.

Everyone should be able to do one card trick, tell two jokes, and recite three poems, in case they are ever trapped in an elevator.

Miracles are like pimples, because once you start looking for them you find more than you ever dreamed you'd see.

Oftentimes. when people are miserable, they will want to make other people miserable, too. But it never helps.

the table of elements does not contain one of the most powerful elements that make up our world, and that is the element of surprise.

Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.

There are two kinds of fears: rational and irrational- or in simpler terms, fears that make sense and fears that don't.

He looked like the sort of person who would tell you that he did not have an umbrella to lend you when he actually had several and simply wanted to see you get soaked.

I suppose I'll have to add the force of gravity to my list of enemies.

Schedule time for focused effort.

Come morning, his memory would be of a night spent watching over them all. And each of them - dog and boy, mother and old man - would feel the same.

Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age.

If you're with someone who enjoys having people play hard to get, maybe that's the way you're supposed to do it then.

It isn't true that the laws of nature have been capriciously disturbed; that snakes have talked; that women have been turned into salt; that rods have brought water out of rocks.

I went to Salt Lake City and the Mormons tried to convert me, but when I found they forbade tea and tobacco I thought it was no religion for me.

Set yourself up for success from the very beginning and then focus on maintaining that success.

I love audiences. My God, the best friends in the world!

Lately, the world felt fragile, like a blown egg, as if it might shatter beneath a careless touch.

Now they broke my toothbrush, I don't own anything.