The process of learning is a nonstop orgy of wonderment.

You don’t learn about yourself by being alone, you learn about yourself from other people.

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

You didn’t get the quest you wanted, you got the one you could do.

He who completes a quest does not merely find something. He becomes something.

The danger would be going back, or staying still. The only way out was through. The past was ruins, but the present was still in play.

I have no doubt there are magician psychopaths, and magician serial killers. I doubt Brakebills admissions is very good at screening for those.

That was the thing about the world: it wasn't that things were harder than you thought they were going to be, it was that they were hard in ways that you didn't expect.

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

By now he had learned enough to know that when he was getting annoyed at somebody else, it was usually because there was something that he himself should be doing, and he wasn't doing it.

Don't take anyone's writing advice too seriously.

That we're not human is just the lie they tell themselves so they don't have to feel bad about how they treat us

You said one day you would come back for usThe ones that believed in youThe ones that asked you into their heartsThe ones that served you

I'm not a writer who teaches. I'm a teacher who writes.

One day you'll understand the sheer awesomeness that is me.

Producing quality compost is the most important job on the organic farm. A lot of the problems I see on farms I visit could be solved by making better compost.

A fellow and his business should be bosom friends in the office and sworn enemies out of it.

I half knew what to expect when I saw the cricket ground in the morning. It was when I started to talk to people working out there, I began to find what I was looking for.

If you want to see God move make a move.

Humility is simply believing and accepting what God says about us, and God says that we are anything but worthless.

You ask any person in the U.S. and they know who Mary Lou Retton is.