I think we rarely recognize the fifth business in our lives at the time those people are changing us.

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 love you because I find myself in you.

We cannot resolve the problems of the world by unsing the same techniques that have created them.

The recipe for success is a tried and true one here in Rhode Island - innovation, reform, public service.

Poverty is a stubborn thing: you seldom escape it with one bound.

Research consistently shows that the risks to health outweigh the benefits of drinking alcohol. My argument is that the benefits to my mental health justify the risks.

The act of God injures no one.

... how much of our inner substance is it good for us to give to public griefs? The whole modern tendency to agonize over the suffering of the entire globe is surely something new.

Nature made him, and then broke the mold.

Our comparative fidelity was fear of defeat at the hands of another partner.

The soul ... is nameless because it is formless. It will neither go to heaven nor [to hell] any more than it will enter this glass.