I believe most people are essentially good. I know that I am. It's you I'm not entirely sure of.

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 too many stars in the sky and none of them is overshadowing the other. Don't let anybody be a threat to your growth.

When you think and act opposite to love, you find yourself powerless and life becomes a frightening nightmare.

We have the right and the responsibility to be intolerant of those things which should not be tolerated.

Sometimes it is more important to discover what one cannot do than what one can.

People who go on to be writers are those who can forgive themselves the horror of the first draft.

Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other friendships of the same intimacy.

If you think about stuff that happened when you were young, it stays with you forever.

Asian culture has a profoundly different relationship to work. It rewards people who are persistent.

I am a mom as well as a senator!

Memories, how they linger in the twilight and in the wee small hours sometimes just before dawn.