Explanations are such cheap poetry.

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.

It is possible to build a system that could assure you of increase on constant basis

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.

What value is there in faith without works? And what are they worth if they are not united to the merits of Jesus Christ, our only good?

Better alone than badly accompanied.

Whatever you want is as elusive as you make it.

I was aware that the teaching of drawing was being stopped almost 30 years ago. And I always said, 'The teaching of drawing is the teaching of looking.' A lot of people don't look very hard.

Through [my children] patience, they're showing me how much they support what's going on, because I'm having to do a lot of work right now.

You cannot create a life of fulfillment, joy, and meaning while you are barricading yourself from others and from the opportunities Life offers you.

Sun of my soul, thou Savior dear, It is not night if thou be near. Oh, may no earthborn cloud arise To hide thee from thy servant's eyes.

I once asked a policeman how far it was to the subway. he said, "I don't know, no one has ever made it".