If you can read in the 21st century you own the world.

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.

To conform is to be average.

There must be a sense of urgency before anything can ever happen.

For a control freak, love and the desire to control others are synonymous. Once they lose control over the object of their desire, hostility takes over in full force.

Are you looking into Joe Biden's supposed botox shots in his forehead?

A cold and moist brain is an inseparable companion to folly.

I was a huge bookworm as a kid, and you could usually find me reading something with a dragon on its cover.

When you most feel like giving up is when you most need to be keeping on.

Life is a mosaic of pleasure and pain - grief is an interval between two moments of joy.

As iron cast into fire loses its rust and becomes glowing white, so he who turns completely to God is stripped of his sluggishness and changed into a new man.

[Ernest ]Hemingway always said, "Write about what you know." I think you can do that, and if you want to write about what you don't know, you can. It just takes a lot more work.