The problem with being clever, Serene thought with a sigh, is that everyone assumes you're always planning something.

Remember, the past need not become our future as well.

To live is to have worries and uncertainties. Keep them inside, and they will destroy you for certain--leaving behind a person so callused that emotion can find no root in his heart.

Pain los[es] its power when other things bec[o]me more important.

To their simple, degenerate minds there was only one thing to do when faced by a God more powerful than their own: Convert.Brandon Sanderson(Elantris)

It's beneficial to have a reputation for honesty, if only so that one can lie at crucial moments.

It's beneficial to have a reputation for honesty, if only so that one could lie at crucial moments.

There was nothing more bitter than a soul who had had its chance and thrown it away.

a depressed person doesn't want you to try and cheer them up. It makes us sick.

Oh my lovely princess, "Raoden whispered. "You probably mean well, but handing these people food is the worst thing you could do to them."-Brandon Sanderson(Elantris)

Is human nature to believe that other places and other times are better than the here and now.

Our body hears whatever is in our minds and responds.

...a good man cannot be harmed either in life or in death, and that his affairs are not neglected by the gods.

The hidden strength is too deep a secret. But in the end...in the end it is our only ally.

I'd make a comment at a meeting and nobody would even acknowledge me. Then some man would say the same thing and they'd all nod.

If this goes badly and I make a crater, I want it named after me!

At the age of 16, something happened with my finger and the doctor told me, you never can be a organist or pianist, so think about what you do with music.

Born to lose. Live to win.

The only honest art form is laughter, comedy. You can't fake it.

Or maybe it's time to broaden out some of the African civil wars?

Live each day as if it were the last day of your life because, so far, it is.