Fear can hold you prisoner. Hope can set you free.

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.

Ambidextrous, adj.: Able to pick with equal skill a right-hand pocket or a left.

I'm concerned that my technical skills have advanced to the point where I can get closer to what I'm aiming for, which is not such a good thing.

You cannot protect your solitude if you cannot make yourself odious.

Imprisoned is he whose heart is imprisoned from Allâh. Captured is he who is captured by his desires.

There was this superstitious fear on the part of the pygmies of the present for the relics of the giants of the past.

I'm not a pessimist, even though I do think awful things are going to happen.

As McLuhan says, everything happens at once.

I have a dream today!

My dear young fellow,' the Old-Green-Grasshopper said gently, 'there are a whole lot of things in this world of ours you haven't started wondering about yet.

A sunset is the sun's fiery kiss to the night.