It was the kiss by which all the others of his life would be judged and found wanting.

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.

Great minds think alike because a greater Mind is thinking through them.

Almost everybody is born a genius and buried an idiot.

Never say about anything, "I have lost it," but only "I have given it back." Is your child dead? It has been given back. Is your wife dead? She has been returned.

The West has given us the liberal miracle of individual rights, individual responsibility, merit, and human satisfaction.

My greatest fear is flying. And I do a lot of flying, so that's a bummer

I would like to step out of my heart and go walking beneath the enormous sky.

When I was a waiter, I wanted to be the best waiter I could be and worked to be better at it every day.

The way a government treats refugees is very instructive.

A holy life is not an ascetic, or gloomy or solitary life, but a life regulated by divine truth and faithful in Christian duty. It is living above the world while we are still in it.

Kelly was aware that there is one type of favorable bet available to everyone; the stock market.