Life is like a wheel. Sooner or later, it always come around to where you started 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.

Sometimes we are so caught up in the disappointment of plans gone astray that we fail to recognize the potentially new options that might now exist.

On our life map, he drew a bright circle around twelve through eighteen. This was the abyss where, unguided, black boys were swallowed whole, only to reemerge on corners and prison tiers.

The rolling stone rolls echoing from rock to rock

I don't really desire things. I prefer to spend my money on experiences, on meals or travel.

When I put out to sea, I do not offer advice to the skipper about the management of the ship.

Real worship is that of the heart.

You behold in me, Stephen said with grim displeasure, a horrible example of free thought.

People's purpose in life is always connected to their giftedness.

It takes extraordinary wisdom and self-control to accept that many things have a logic we do not understand that is smarter than our own.

When a team feels like a family, they will go all out to love and serve one another.