It's a cash and carry world. Sometimes you pay a little. Mostly it's a lot. Sometimes, it's everything you have.

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.

You see, wisdom does not come with grey hairs.

Use time to convert yourself

It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.

The older they get, the better they get when they were younger

I mean, really: what kind of person could possibly dislike me?

Firmness of purpose is one of the most necessary sinews of character and one of the best instruments of success. Without it genius wastes its efforts in a maze of inconsistencies.

Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves.

I don't think your ability to fight has anything to do with how big you are. It's to do with how much anger is in you.

The walls have ears, ears that hear each little sound you make every time you stamp, throw a lamp.

Let us, cautious in diction, And mighty in contradiction, Love powerfully.