Whatever problems we encountered, we put there. If we trace the line back, every struggle derived from some decision we made. It is not chance, it is how we teach ourselves.

She was an exotic flower amongst the snowdrifts, out of place, a Technicolor misfit in a monochrome Christmas movie.

Time owed an alliance to the undying.

If superstition could contradict science, the world may as well be on the back of a turtle. But giving into turtle worship was a bridge too far.

She mourned the history that the invisible intruder had erased, but not enough that she would spend a second more of her future feeling the emptiness.

…He sounded as though he had just seen The Pokey Little Puppy meet the business end of The Little Engine That Could.

The seed of an urban legend find fertile soil at the corner of tragedy and imagination.

Magic was not in glitter and sparks. Real magic didn't need to be.

None of us just pop into the world fully formed, so it's the little facts that make us.

Ethically, she couldn't cause the suffering of any living thing. Logically, bacon cheeseburgers were delicious.

Reason had no place to crash once Emotion came to town.

If you hate something, the best way to beat it is to be better than anyone else in it.

If you run from me, I will chase you, and I'll find you....

Hope lies to mortals And most believe her, But man's deceiver Was never mine.

The only way to maximize potential for performance is to be calm in the mind.

God bless America. Let's try to save some of it.

If I hear a song that I love - how is the groove and how is the beat and what is the feeling of this? - I can make it my own.

Many new years you may see, but happy ones you cannot see without deserving them. These virtue, honor, and knowledge alone can merit, alone can produce.

The trick is, to treat your days as if each one may be your last.

If we knew exactly what to expect throughout the Solar System, we would have no reason to explore it.

I never look at the newspaper in the morning. That's the worst thing you can do with your brain.