I hold to no God," Roland said. "I hold to the Tower, and won't pray to that.

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.

I always say that my success has been three parts support and encouragement from my amazing network and one part piss and vinegar.

Overcoming obstacles requires commitment and strength. Despite all odds, face each journey with courage, each struggle with accomplishment, and each challenge with victory.

Laughter is the best medicine

I changed the course of my disease with the power of my mind.

The challenge is to stay cool enough to handle the pressure in the moment so that you can succeed in the future.

To give a satisfactory decision as to the truth it is necessary to be rather an arbitrator than a party to the dispute.

Sometimes opportunity knocks, but most of the time it sneaks up and then quietly steals away.

Espousing the melancholy of ancient symbols, I would have freed myself.

Have a dialogue between the two opposing parts and you will find that they always start out fighting each other until we come to an appreciation of difference.

It is not our criminal actions that require courage to confess, but those which are ridiculous and foolish.