Only God gets things right the first time.

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.

We glorify God when we celebrate people

You can learn things from a heart so bleedingWhen love bargains with deceitful pleading Hours soar from dawn to dawn splitting your time Don’t hear melody from a soundless chime

No man has any right to speak to men about God who has not first spoken to God about men.

The individual is taught that there is nothing that he as a total person is to feel ashamed of or self-hating for.

Resentments are the rocket fuel that lives in the tip of my saber.

The very word Secrecy is repugnant in a free and open society.

President Eisenhower was a fine general and a good, decent man, but if he had fought World War II the way he fought for civil rights, we would all be speaking German now.

Zen is very easy! It's like touching your nose when you wash your face in the morning!

Our idea of nature is increasingly being determined by scientific developments. And they have become decisive for our image of reality.