It's only a little secret, but having a secret makes me feel better. Like a human being again.

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.

Bill Bright, founder of Campus Crusade for Christ and author of the Four Spiritual Laws chose three words for his tombstone: "slave for Jesus".

Every man is the architect of his own fortune.

Marriage is an intimate relationship between two people. It is a bad idea to involve a third party.

Good friends are hard to come by... I need more money.

It is my conviction that movie stars are not entitled to any rights of privacy.

Any time we deny any citizen the full exercise of his constitutional rights, we are weakening our own claim to them.

Using governmental force to impose a vision on others is intellectual sloth.

The earth doesn't have a housekeeper to do the dusting. And the dust that falls on it every day remains there. Everything that's come down to us from the past has been conserved by dust.

Talent is the ability to say things well, but genius is the ability to, well, say things.

It's like most anything. If you want to be a loser, there's always a way to dwell on the negative. If you want to win, there's always a way to think positively.