What's the point of not taking chances? I don't know if I could stand living my whole life afraid.

My English teacher said that a writer is the worst judge of his own work.

She's got the kind of ethereal, unselfconscious beauty some young girls possess that breaks your heart. Or theirs.

I am a ghost in a land of phantoms and forgotten nightmares.

Follow your heart. Just don't get lost.

They call it the drowning instinct. It's when drowning doesn't look like drowning. (pg. 241)

The things you think about when you're a hair's breath away from getting yourself killed.

We all have our fictions, little lies we tell ourselves to keep going from one day to the next.

The familiar was usually invisible; how many people really noticed everything they saw?

As the dog sprinted back, Jack said to the girl, "Sweetheart,honey, why do you have to be so hateful?" "Why not?" Ellie said. "It's not like being good ever got me anywhere.

Obeying orders just to obey is the mark of a person who has ceased to think. Remember, it is better to suffer for doing what is right rather than for doing what is wrong.

One of the things that Africa needs, everybody seems to agree, is some measure of debt relief.

From my father, I learned the importance of working sincerely at things to which I had committed myself, and to persevere untiringly even in the face of little progress.

In 1790, the nation which had fought a revolution against taxation without representation discovered that some of its citizens weren't much happier about taxation with representation.

Set yourself earnestly to discover what you are made to do, and then give yourself passionately to the doing of it.

Life is a game, play it... Life is too precious, do not destroy it.

The whole reason for Jazz at the Philharmonic was to take it to places where I could break down segregation.

Things happen in everyday life that make you consider living your life just every other day.

To try to correct imbalances with trade restrictions is a grave error.

In advertising, I was frustrated by having to deal with the client. It was the only time I really worked in a proper office, and I didn't like it-simple as that.

I think I can. I think I can. I think I can. I know I can.