Moonlight flooded in the windows and silvered the room, turning it into a lagoon of dreams

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.

I think the neural pathways in our brains affect what happens in our bodies, and so can alter our health.

Let those that merely talk and never think, That live in the wild anarchy of drink

Marriage is an institution necessary to the maintenance of society but contrary to the laws of nature.

New occasions teach new duties, time makes ancient good uncouth; They must upward still and onward, who would keep abreast of truth.

If my name were John D Smith IV I wouldn't have been elected to anything.

No matter what happens in the future, no matter where our paths take us, this moment will be ours.

Go after a dream that is destined to fail without divine intervention.

Not for nothing does the neurotic suffer - but not for anything very much, either.

What does learning mean: accumulating knowledge or transforming your life?

Stem cells are like toenail clippings with a better career plan.