Sometimes I wish that just solving the plot problems was enough. And then elves would go and do all the actual work moving the words around.

I really don't know what "I love you" means. I think it means "Don't leave me here alone.

Go, and make interesting mistakes, make amazing mistakes, make glorious and fantastic mistakes. Break rules. Leave the world more interesting for your being here.

You’re alive. That means you have infinite potential. You can do anything, make anything, dream anything.

Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.

The one thing that you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision. So write and draw and build and play and dance and live as only you can.

There are so many fragile things, after all. People break so easily, and so do dreams and hearts.

You have to finish things - that's what you learn from, you learn by finishing things.

People think dreams aren't real just because they aren't made of matter, of particles. Dreams are real. But they are made of viewpoints, of images, of memories and puns and lost hopes.

Google can bring you back 100,000 answers. A librarian can bring you back the right one.

Sometimes you wake up. Sometimes the fall kills you. And sometimes, when you fall, you fly.

As cruel as life might be at times, if you throw in the towel, which is what everyone will expect, then nothing good will happen and your life will fall apart. Be better than that!

When you pray, you are not starting the conversation from scratch, just remembering to plug back into a conversation that's always in progress.

You are fully capable of deciding your own destiny. The question you face is: which path will you choose? This is something only you can decide.

In the history of man it has been very generally the case that when evils have grown insufferable they have touched the point of cure.

Every child should be taught to cook in school, not just talk about nutrition all day. Good food can be made in 15 minutes. This could be the first generation where the kids teach the parents.

Patience is the ability to suffer a long time under the mistreatment of others without growing resentful or bitter.

Rep. James Clyburn, the state's only black congressman -- controls 20 percent to 25 percent of the primary vote.

No idea will work if people don't trust your intentions toward them.

...for my master, bad as I have thought him, is not half so bad as this woman.-To be sure she must be an atheist!

I, for one, thoroughly believe that no power in the universe can withhold from anyone anything they really deserve.