It is good to brush your teeth when you are angry, because you brush harder and do a better job.

They were almond cookies, although they could have been made of spinach and shoes for all I cared. I ate eleven of them, right in a row. It is rude to take the last cookie.

Nothing firms up a friendship like a good-natured argument.

A secret note is secret. There is no reason to sign it.

The map is not the territory, " Snicket's chaperon advises him. "That's an expression which means the world does not match the picture in our heads.

By the law of nature, there is no pleasure in suffering; but divine love, when it reigns in a heart, makes it take delight in its sufferings.

Lord, by the words of consecration the substance of the bread and wine is converted into the substance of your Body and Blood. All powerful Lord, say over me the word which will change me into You.

I'm inspired by music. Sometimes more than I want to be.

But I will not tell you how long or short the way will be; only that it lies across a river. But do not fear that, for I am the great Bridge Builder.

Evidence for or against God, if it is there, saturates every moment of the experience of existence, every employment of reason, every act of consciousness, every encounter with the world around us.

To read is to surrender oneself to an endless displacement of curiosity and desire from one sentence to another

As usual, my timing is bizarrely good.

Maydens, be they never so foolyshe, yet beeing fayre they are commonly fortunate.

When it comes to housework the one thing no book of household management can ever tell you is how to begin. Or maybe I mean why.

A fighter should not think only of his shete, just because he has a shete in his hand. Everything is a weapon in the warrior's mind.