A lot of fairy tales are thinly disguised hostility raps against parents. Kids know that they can't make it on their own, that if they were left alone, they would die.

Quiet people have the loudest minds.

Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.

The water was glassy and calm, still candy-colored in the afterglow of sunset.

A life without love is like a tree without fruit.

The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool.

Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.

Outside, daylight was bleeding slowly toward dusk.

You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.

People who try hard to do the right thing always seem mad.

The place where you made your stand never mattered. Only that you were there... and still on your feet.

We've put more effort into helping folks reach old age than into helping them enjoy it.

In the area of social righteousness we cannot be right on the inside and not do it. We cannot! Of course we have people who pretend that they can, but it simply isn't true.

Worship is an act of obedience of the heart. It is a response that requires the very core of who you are, to love the Lord for who He is, not just for what He does.

Our lives have a countdown clock that we can't see. Mine reminds me to only do work that matters.

The Art of Conversation could not die in Australia; it never lived. Television did not kill it; there was nothing there to kill.

Most goals are scored between the posts.

All there is in your life is the eternal now moment - and your experience of this moment is created by the programming in your head.

Did you know that the black suited organization that attacked the Koresh cult was a United Nations task force?

A race of altruists is necessarily a race of slaves. A race of free men is necessarily a race of egoists.