“You don't know what these beans are, said the man [that Jack meets]. If you plant them overnight, by morning they grew right up to the sky.”

“Jack," said Charles, "he's making up words again."

"Yes," Jack replied, "but he's getting better at it, don't you think?”

James A. Owen The Search for the Red Dragon

“There is no such thing as duty. If you know that a thing is right, you want to do it. If you don't want to do it—it isn't right. If it's right and you don't want to do it—you don't know what right is and you're not a man.”

Ayn Rand (1905–1982) Russian-American novelist and philosopher

“Don't dig up in doubt what you planted in faith.”

Elisabeth Elliot (1926–2015) American missionary

“I loved: and in the morning sky,
A magic castle upward grew!”

Edmund Clarence Stedman (1833–1908) American poet, critic, and essayist

“The calories in chocolate don't count because chocolate comes from the cocoa bean, and everyone knows that beans are good for you.”

Jill Shalvis (1963) American writer

“What you need to do is take control of things. Don't wait for events to catch up with you; go and meet them head-on!”

Terry Brooks (1944) American writer

“Every person that you meet knows something you don't; learn from them.”

H. Jackson Brown, Jr. (1940) American writer

“I'm frightened by your behaviour. I woke up this morning and you said good morning and i said good morning, what do you feel like doing today, and you said well i sort of have to do this thing, and i said what thing and you said go to the reading of my father's will, and I said what are you talking about and then you told me that your dad had died. THIS MORNING.”

Daniel Handler book Adverbs

“You know what I just realized? Jack Black… Jack White! [points to Jack White]”

Jack Black (1969) American actor, comedian, musician, music producer