Silent," the carved wizardwood on his wrist breathed. "Silent as a blinded ship, floating hull-up in the sea. Silent as a scream underwater.

Boredom is vastly underrated. Boredom means that nothing is trying to kill you every day.

Anticipating pain was like enduring it twice. Why not anticipate pleasure instead?

Leave the pain behind and let your life be your own again. There is a place where all time is now, and the choices are simple and always your own. Wolves have no kings

There is little in life so reassuring as a genuine welcome.

Stop longing.You poison today’s ease, reaching always for tomorrow.

When you cut pieces out of the truth to avoid looking like a fool you end up looking like a moron instead.

Tomorrow owes you the sum of your yesterdays. No more than that. And no less.

Diplomacy is the velvet glove that cloaks the fist of power.

Look forward, not back. Correct your course and go on. You cannot undo yesterday's journey.

Do you not see how strange and wonderful that is? That all history balances on an affair of the human heart?

Walk in the light pathways.

Are you okay?” someone asked. “I’m fine, ” I snapped, turning to face Jayden Griffin. “I have to admit, you’re getting better at lying, Tess Embers, ” he said quietly. “However, I know you’re not okay.

Every solution breeds new problems.

I do an awful lot of scuba diving. I love to be on the ocean, under the ocean. I live next to the ocean.

It is difficult to age because society won't let you. People expect you to look how you did at the height of your fame.

We ordinary people can see neither our own eyelashes, which are so close, nor the heavens in the distance.

Being around someone who accepts and supports you will remind you to accept and support yourself.

All of us have that feeling of some deficiency from our childhood. I think that's a universal thing.

I managed to slip two children out in the middle of my career and have been lucky with all the work.

Leadership is Idealism in Action.