But there's one thing I'm sure about. An opening line should invite the reader to begin the story. It should say: Listen. Come in here. You want to know about this.

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.

Everything which helps us to exist is holy! And a tree is holiest of the holy for us!

Grass is never green by accident.

Be England what she will With all her faults she is my country still.

A man must have very eminent qualities to hold his own without being polite.

The paradox of faith is that when we conform our lives to Christ then we gain our true freedom. And its fruit is profound and lasting happiness.

Fear, in evolution, has a special prominence: perhaps more than any other emotion it is crucial for survival.

As a former secretary of defense, I think Donald Rumsfeld is the best secretary of defense the United States has ever had.

What you can do is often simply a matter of what you will do.

You can't erase what you know. You can't forget who you are.

The age of miracles has not past. The Miracle Worker is still ALIVE. His name is Jesus Christ!