People with a high tolerance for boredom can get a lot of thinking done.

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.

There is a beastwithin my heart.She plays immaculately with the beauty in my soul.

To those that are not accustomed to it the inner beauty appears as ugliness because humanity in general inclines to the outer and knows nothing of the inner.

Diplomats are just as essential to starting a war as soldiers are for finishing it... You take diplomacy out of war, and the thing would fall flat in a week.

Change provides us with experiences that we convert to personal power.

The problem is when you write the album, you record all the instruments, you edit the whole thing and then you have to mix it. You start to get out of touch with the songs and it becomes math.

What you make of your life is up to you. You have all the tools and resources you need. Your answers lie inside of you.

There is a big difference between storytelling and being alive. Those are the two things that I prefer in life - telling stories and being alive.

My job as a coach was to make something meaningful out of one of the most mundane activities on the planet: playing pro basketball.

Sippin' on that brown stuff Got you feeling like you found love, Or maybe it was just luck. But honestly...it's probably none of the above.

It's not what happens to you that determines how far you will go in life; it is how you handle what happens to you.