If you can defeat your own calamity, you will be a hope for others and thus you can defeat the calamity of others too!

A happy man eagerly awaits the rising of the sun.

I never loved another person the way I loved myself.

Being a father helps me be more responsible... you see more things than you've ever seen.

Courageous people do not fear forgiving, for the sake of peace.

Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.

You really should stay away from me.

You can’t write, yet you learned to hunt, to survive. How?I paused with my foot on the threshold. That’s what happens when you’re responsible for lives other than your own, isn’t it? You do what you h...

What if custom is wrong? demanded the part of her that believed in the code of chivalry. A knight must set things right.

We were in separate realities, fast and slow. There is no fixed reality, only objects in contrast.

This cat is looking at me with judgment.He’s not, said Jules. That’s just his face.You look at me the same way, Mark said, glancing at Julian. Judgy face.

The only thing more unthinkable than leaving was staying; the only thing more impossible than staying was leaving.

The child who refuses to travel in the father's harness, this is the symbol of man's most unique capability. I do not have to be what my father was. I do not have to obey my father's rules or even bel...

Spirituality isn't some quaint stepchild of an intelligent worldview, or the only option for those of us not smart enough to understand the facts of the real world. Spirituality reflects the most soph...

It's mechanical, Leo said. Maybe a doorway to the dwarfs' secret lair? Ooooo! shrieked a nearby voice. Secret lair? I want a secret lair! yelled another voice from above....If we had a secret lair, sa...

Hot weather opens the skull of a city, exposing its white brain, and its heart of nerves, which sizzle like the wires inside a lightbulb. And there exudes a sour extra-human smell that makes the very...

Do you make pizza dough?Yes.This is the same thing. Very easy. When the yeast was foamy, she added flour, olive oil, and salt and handed me a large wooden spoon. Now you stir it hard until it comes to...

Cognitive science has something of enormous importance to contribute to human freedom: the ability to learn what our unconscious conceptual systems are like and how our cognitive unconscious functions...

Aphrodite, [Annabeth] said. Venus? Hazel asked in amazement. Mom, Piper said with no enthusiasm. Girls! The goddess spread her arms like she wanted a group hug. The three demigods did not oblige. Haze...

Nobody will ever take Maurice's place, and he'll go on with us and he'll go on our music. He'll go on with us as the Bee Gees, and Maurice will always be with us.