Scores of studies have shown that venting doesn't soothe anger; it fuels it.

The secret to life is to put yourself in the right lighting. For some, it's a Broadway spotlight; for others, a lamplit desk. Use your natural powers - - of persistence, concentration, and insight - -...

That is fine. Feeling a need to convince others that you are right also is something that comes from religion, I think; I am simply content to know that I am right, even if others do not know it.

Knowing nothing can get you humiliated and knowing a little bit can get you killed, but knowing all of it will bring you power.

'Should we plan our escape route now?' I asked. She laughed. 'We'll push Cahil into their path to slow them down.'

I cannot exist without you, so killing Galen is not an option. I would rather lose you to the Stormdancer than lose you in the sky.

I reached 1400 weeks, the age of maturity. The age when you were no longer considered a child. It was when you became a scrub and the reality of what the rest of your life would be like became...

No, love. You're the only one who has caused me to do the oddest things. You have truly poisoned me.

I found Esau's field guide at the bottom of my pack. Taking a candle into the bedroom, I read his book until my eyes grew heavy. From his vast notes, it seemed that almost every plant and tree in the...

Renee used to say real life was a bad country song, except bad country songs were believable and real life isn't.

But I lie. I embellish. My words are not deep enough. They disguise, they conceal. I will not rest until I have told of my descent into a sensuality which was as dark, as magnificent, as wild, as my...

But they are sufficiently few to make the reapplication of the images to comparable situations easy. Any society whom Babylon's cap fits must wear it. Any society which absolutizes its own economic...

A second important sense in which Revelation stands in the tradition of the Jewish apocalypses is that it shares the question which concerned so many of the latter: who is Lord over the world?

it was easier to be angry than to examine why

The language of power was exercised in more than just words. It was presence and thought; it was gesture and timing.

She wanted us to see that life could be good, if we looked around at the world instead of within ourselves.

with static electricity

Scotty leaned across the table and whispered in a voice Travis wasn't supposed to have heard but did. We've got to do something quick before Uncle Travis poisons us

Never did. He knew it and loved me, anyway. I imagine you're wondering why I'm mailing you my wedding dress. {Yes, that is indeed my infamous wedding dress.} I suspect the sight of it has put the fear...

Aspire to inspire before you expire. - MRS. MIRACLE

I'd found love - - only to discover how fleeting it can be.

Being - 'subject' means taking up a position from which an actor can make the transition from theory to practice. This transition usually takes place once an actor has found the motive that liberates...

Let go of your worries and focus only on the task at hand. The future will be what it will, and fretting about it will only make your fears more likely to come true.

A man with conscience... the most dangerous thing in the world. Nasuada

All we can do is strive to accept our fate with grace, whatever it might be.

Men — who — were — friends and the Urgals — who — were — friends and the horses — she — must — not — eat

You worry about a crack in the floor while the whole mountain is about to come down on us!

The debate raged on for so long, at last Saphira had interrupted with a roar that shook the walls of the command tent. Then she said, I am sore and tired, and Eragon is doing a poor job of explaining...

I own a book, he thought, delighted.

Are not all religions strange to those who stand outside of them?