Knowledge itself is never dangerous, it is how that knowledge is used that is dangerous

The strong survive, but the courageous triumph.

Every story starts with an idea, but it is the characters that move this idea forward.

You don't call retarded people retards. It's bad taste. You call your friends retards when they are acting retarded.

OK," Josh said evenly, "I've seen men made of mud, I guess I can accept spying rats. Do they talk?" he wondered aloud. Don't be ridiculous," Flamel snapped, "They're rats." Josh really didn't think it was a ridiculous suggestion.

Good or bad is a matter of perspective. I met an immortal hunami once, a man called William Shakespeare, who wrote that there is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.

They ex­pect­ed to lose. And there­fore, they lost. [..] Peo­ple who start think­ing deep dark thoughts in the mid­dle of a war start ex­pect­ing to lose.