Did-a-chick? Dum-a-chum? Dad-a-cham? Ded-a-chek?

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.

A life of faith is an enduring sacred-existence.

The prayers of Christians are in vain if they do not plan any corresponding actions

The trouble with dying...is that you don't get to see how everything turns out. You won't know the ending.

A pod in the Matrix is looking pretty good right now.

To subject every private family to the odious visits and examination of the tax-gatherers ... would be altogether inconsistent with liberty.

Whatever is dirty, it is women's job to clean up, or drive some man to clean up, and that goes for everything from cellar to senate.

I think the younger kids need to realize there's this whole forgotten 90s that people don't really talk about.

This whole generation of parents - I'm guilty of it too - does too much for their kids.

We have lobbed verses of Scripture, like hand grenades, into the camps of others, convinced we only have truth.

When you're in a play, you never really have a sense of what an audience is experiencing. The experience of doing a play is so different from the experience of seeing it.