I'm not making an enemy; I'm keepin' one.

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.

Follow your heart. It will lead you to where you need to be.

A writer who can't follow submission guidelines is like a pilot without a plane... ain't gonna get very far!

Let every man be master of his fate.

Remember: Let's look for ways to take *care* of each other rather than look for ways to take *advantage* of each other.

When men grow virtuous in their old age they only make a sacrifice to God of the devil's leavings.

They hurt each other without wanting to, just because each represented to the others the cruel and demanding necessity of their lives.

Signing with Hollywood Records was a dream come true. I am so blessed to get to do the things that I love to do every day of my life. My fans can expect to be blown away with the music I'm writing.

I'm a kind of private guy.

I believe every change any word has undergone probably originated in ignorance.

Maybe I don't have the most common kind of motor neuron disease, which usually kills in two or three years.