Don't let the sun go down without saying thank you to someone, and without admitting to yourself that absolutely no one gets this far alone.

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.

There are no monsters in the dark.

At the heart of most things that look bad is something that can be good and useful.

There's a virtue,' Felix said, 'to listening to a reluctant storyteller. You know that he is in fact diving deep for the salvageable truth.

Coaching done well may be the most effective intervention designed for human performance.

I went away, dear Agnes, loving you. I stayed away, loving you. I returned home, loving you!

A good man never fights with a woman.

The goal of the artist is not to resolve life's mysteries, but to deepen them.

Almost all government starts at a very local level at some point.

The things that are said in literature are always the same. What is important is the way they are said.

It's tough to stay married. My wife kisses the dog on the lips, yet she won't drink from my glass.