Language and reality are kept strictly apart—reality is tough, unyielding stuff, and it doesn’t care what you think or feel or say about it. Or it shouldn’t.

If there's a single lesson that life teaches us, it's that wishing doesn't make it so.

It's time to live with what we have and mourn what we lost.

I got my heart's desire, and there my troubles began.

The truth doesn't always make a good story, does it?

It was so much easier to be angry. Being angry made him feel strong, even though-- and this contradiction did nothing to diminish his anger-- he was angry only because his position was so weak.

In Fillory you felt the appropriate emotions when things happened. Happiness was a real, actual, achievable possibility. It came when you called. Or no, it never left you in the first place.

It wasn't nothing, but it wasn't everything either.

Becoming me was the greatest creative project of my life.

You said the words, and they altered the universe. By merely speaking you could create damage and pain, cause tears to fall, drive people away, make yourself feel better, make your life worse.

You just had to get some idea of what matters and what doesn't, and how much, and try not to be scared of the stuff that doesn't. Put it in perspective.

Be humble, be gracious, and make peace with inner fears before stepping out into the limelight and allowing yourself to be subjected to all of humanity.

The ability to write compelling emails may be the single most useful talent an organizer can possess.

I would rather be the hammer than the anvil

Hey man, Jaws was never my scene, and i don't like Star Wars

Its [Communism's] unfortunate association with violence encourages a certain evil tendency in human beings.

The Internets distinct configuration may have made cyberattacks easy to launch, but it has also kindled the flame of freedom.

Life is not about win-and-lose. Life is about being or not being, expressing or not expressing, who you are.

Believing God's promises the Christian is taken through difficulties of every shape and size - and arrives safely.

Maybe" she said. "I just wish we'd have a little mishap.It would be reassuring

Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.