Friends come in and out of our lives, like busboys in a restaurant.

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.

You know the Prince song where the girl's phone rings but she tells him, "whoever's calling couldn't be as cute as you?" I long to live out this moment in real life.

When life's adversities overwhelm you, look beyond your circumstances with an absolute trust that God is in control.

Competition is pretty much the essence of everything, it gives humans drive.

We injure mysteries, which are matters of faith by any attempt at explanation in order to make them matters of reason.

The intensity of our desire to share the gospel is a great indicator of the extent of our personal conversion.

Life is a four-letter word.

When the coach told me I was playing, I said: 'We're going to Brazil.' It doesn't matter how. If I'd had to score with my hand, the ball would have been in the back of the net.

Stage is really hard work. You've got to do it every night. Not like doing it once and walking away.

Unless we believe and see Jesus in the appearance of bread on the altar, we will not be able to see him in the distressing disguise of the poor.

I believe God promotes you when you graduate from the level that you're on.