Let the word and the legend go before you. Let the world go before you. Let your shadow grow. Let it grow hair on its face. Let it become dark. Given time, words may even enchant an enchanter.

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.

When God takes out the trash, don't go digging back through it. Trust Him.

Or, maybe what really mattered was that game of Crazy 8s.

What the homosexual wants, and here he is neither willing to compromise nor morally required to compromise — is acceptance of homosexuality as a way of life fully on a par with heterosexuality.

When men are young, they want experience and when they have gained experience, they want energy.

It's the connection between schools and communities that creates greatness in schools.

It is only by questioning what people take for granted, what people hold to be true, that we can break through the hypnosis of social conditioning.

... let everyone regard himself as the steward of God in all things which he possesses.

We do not really see through our eyes or hear through our ears, but through our beliefs.

Westernized Indians don't like my books and I tend not to like westernized Indians - so we're quits.

Charles Barkley was a big teddy bear.