And she sees that the moonlight is losing its orange glow. It has become buttery, and will soon turn to silver.

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.

To be wise means to know when to stay silent.

There's always a gap between the burn and the sting of it, the pain and the realization...You can't survive a rift that big without it leaving a mark.

The more you get set into your own world, the smaller your world becomes.

Despise your weakness, not yourself.

Before civilization, artists painted for the living. Today, most paint for a living.

I am becoming the people I love.

When your great players are team players, everybody else follows their lead. The best team doesn't always win - it's usually the team that gets along best.

The greatest danger facing our nation isn't terrorism, global warming or the energy crisis. It is out-of-control, unbridled government spending.

There's nothing about the way my life unfolded that should be seen as at all prescriptive for what anybody else wants to do.

You should be dynamic, and still be soft in the heart. You should stand against injustice and simultaneously, be compassionate within you, like a saint. Be a saint and a soldier, together