Do it for joy and you can do it forever

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.

The best advice is not to write what you know, it's to write what you like. Write the kind of story you like best- write the story you want to read.

Throughout history, only a small number of people have done the serious thinking for everybody.

The Lord performs mighty wonders and glorious miracles.

Nature of man is not what he was born as, but what he is born for.

None are more unjust in their judgments of others than those who have a high opinion of themselves.

My patriotism is not an exclusive thing. It is all-embracing and I should reject that patriotism which sought to mount the distress or exploitation of other nationalities.

Beauty is the vocation bestowed on the artist by the Creator in the gift of artistic talent.

Breastfeeding is the very best diet I've been on.

See it better than it is or you have no future, without vision there is no possibility of improvement

I'll teach you differences.