I'd been raised by my parents to believe barfing your feelings on other people was the height of impoliteness.

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.

Sometimes being overwhelmed by emotions can leave you speechless but even then it is important to identify the correct emotion.

Sometimes the bridges you burn light the way out of your darkness, but the memory of the blaze will be burned into your heart and mind forever.

What we do to others, we do to ourselves..

Search engines finds the information, not necessarily the truth.

If you want to build a boat, do not instruct the men to saw wood, stitch the sails, prepare the tools and organize the work, but make them long for setting sail and travel to distant lands.

A red brick Presbyterian church... captured by kudzu vines as surely as a butterfly in a net.

When a sketch comes into this three-dimensional form and everybody contributes, it's really fantastic.

Education has been a really big part of my life. I went to an all-girls school for most of my life, and the curriculum was definitely at the top of your list.

Talent will come out.

Without self-discipline, a noncommissioned officer can never develop or maintain personal integrity.