If a book is not alive in the writer's mind, it is as dead as year-old horse-shit

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.

We have to change every day to survive, but we fear change the most.

The all-victorious Christ is like a great rock in a weary land, to whose shelter we may flee in every time of sorrow or trial, finding quiet refuge and peace in him.

We are advised to meditate on things that are true, lovely, noble, gracious and bring good report. These should form the basis of our thought pattern.

Popular! In America, what else matters?

If you read someone else's diary, you get what you deserve.

Poetry is a fresh morning spider-web telling a story of moonlit hours of weaving and waiting during a night.

Iran is the world's top sponsor of terrorism, and I am not going to stop until that problem is properly solved.

A lot of us have jobs where we need to give people structure but that is different from controlling.

I think players changing coaches is normal.