It hurt, of course, but more often than not the best things do, I've found.

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 more than songs can say, but I can't keep running after yesterday...

Live your life as a curious student and you will discover how fascinating it is.

The world isn't going to be destroyed, but you don't feel safe anymore in your plane or train or office or auditorium.

We notice things that don't work. We don't notice things that do. We notice computers, we don't notice pennies. We notice e-book readers, we don't notice books.

President Bush will go down in history as the torture president. He has now defied a majority of Congress to allow the use of interrogation techniques that any reasonable observer would call torture.

I felt confident at 24, but I am a better driver now.

The only method of receiving love is to give love, because what we give out must come back.

But let me tell you what happens when regulations go too far, when they seem to exist only for the purpose of justifying the existence of a regulator. It kills the people trying to start a business.

Professional football is the most violent thing your eyes have ever seen.

There can be only one purpose for relationships-and for all of life: to be and to decide Who You Really Are.