God pisses down the back of your neck every day but only drowns you once.

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 must know the thoughts of God, in order to start taking right actions

You could spend a lifetime waiting for someone to love the real you but if you don't know who you really are, you are wasting your time.

You said a curse is only a curse if I allowed myself to me cursed by it. You said... I had it in my power to free myself of any curse - that curses were preludes to blessings...

One can't step into the river twice

I never could get my hair to do what I wanted it to do, so I started wearing the wigs. It all came from a very serious place. I wanted to look a certain way.

America is still the best country for the common man -- white or black ... if he can't make it here he won't make it anywhere else.

Whatever you condemn, you have done yourself.

Journalism is to politician as dog is to lamp-post.

The instinct to survive will never change, neither will the human body's amazing ability to endure.

Lord Jesus, don't let me lie when I say that I love you.....and protect me, for today I could betray you.