Now that, my friends, is what we vampires call a good exit.

That was the thing about life. Habit and routine made things feel permanent, but that was all an illusion based on the very flimsy foundation of repetition. Change and chaos was a far better bet to...

A dream postponed is a dream we deny ourselves.

But one way or another competing and weeding takes place . . . or a race goes downhill.

"I can't get enough adventure," Magnus said lightly. "And adventure cannot get enough of me."

As Sharon Poczter, professor of economics at Cornell, explains, The antiquated rhetoric of 'having it all' disregards the basis of every economic relationship: the idea of trade-offs. All of us are...

The only things needed in life are security, knowledge, and a lot of audacity.

Most good chefs believe there is no such thing as too much garlic.

Most people start from disadvantage {often with no idea they are doing so} and do just fine. It's not unfair, it's universal.

"I am not perfect." It came out in a rush of breath. "See, I thought I was. Thank God I ain't. See, a perfect thing ain't got a chance. The world kills it, everything perfect. {Listen to him!} Now...

Life is a dynamic rather than a static process, and when we don't change it kills us. It's not running away, it's moving on.

I think of how life takes unexpected twists and turns, sometimes through sheer happenstance, sometimes through calculated decisions. In the end, it can all be called fate, but to me, it is more a...

In one sense, faith is about embracing this bigger story and allowing our own story to become part of it.

I've looked at the world for quite a few years now and I've found that if I don't laugh, I'll probably end up crying. - Prince Kheldar of Drasnia

There were pieces missing yet but they would fall into place and then maybe the whole of it would make sense.

There's always more to life than money, Will. Money is just a means to an end. It shouldn't be the goal. Annie Lambert

Life is too short, or too long, for me to allot myself the luxury of living it so badly.

There's always tomorrow. Exactly, she said, finishing off her first doughnut, selecting a second. Maybe she wouldn't starve to death, she decided. Maybe she'd eat herself into obesity and explode....

I don't think there's such a thing as an easy life. There's always going to be hard work, and there will always be misfortunes we can't control lurking out at the edges-storms, sickness, wolves. But...

There is nothing so unsatisfactory as an ending with loose ends, this modern tendency to leave books incomplete.

One of the most common versions of this mistake that high-potential young professionals make is believing that investments in life can be sequenced.

Life had shown him that logic and step-by-step planning hardly controlled events.

A spinning coin, still balanced on its rim, may fall in either direction.

She told me that living life as a Prisoner was a waste of life and that freedom, even a second of freedom, was worth more than a lifetime of bondage.

From this experience, I understood the danger of focusing only on what isn't there. What if I came to the end of my life and realized that I'd spent every day watching for a man who would never come...

My life is either/or. Either I chew regular gum or I chew sugarless gum. Either I chew gum or I smoke. Either I smoke or I gain weight. Either I gain weight or I run up the stadium step.'Sounds like a...

When you play a game of thrones you win or you die.

He was a glass half full kind of person and she was...what? The glass is going to break before you can even pour kind of person. Yikes.

When the brave runs away, the chuperchería is discovered.

Maybe my life is nothing more than a series of moments of dressing and undressing again for the task in question.