I dreamed of you. I dreamed you were wandering in the dark, and so was I. We found each other. We found each other in the dark.

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.

[Buddhism] takes us beyond a kind of self-centered narcissism because instead of identifying with the content of our experience, we identify with awareness itself.

Competition is easier to accept if you realize it is not an act of oppression or abrasion. ... I've worked with my best friends in direct competition.

Phyllis Schlafly speaks for all American women who oppose equal rights for themselves.

When I wrote 'Green, Green,' it was like a really a statement of where I was at philosophically in my life.

Smart, bold, and practical. I Will Teach You To Be Rich is packed with tips that actually work.

Whatever I may believe in theology, I do not believe in the doctrine of vicarious atonement in politics.

No matter how good somebody's life looks from the outside, you can be sure there's something about it you wouldn't want to have in your life.

He's just a little unbalanced and lonely." He put his arms around my waist, frowning. "Can't he be lonely and unbalanced around someone else's girlfriend?" "I'll suggest it.

If you just take it down to bare facts, the reason for living is the reason you make it. I mean the brain was made to create.

Intolerance has been the curse of every age and state.