Pray for rain all you like, but dig a well as you do it.

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.

By nature, we get more pleasure from God's gifts then from Himself.

Be yourself, because you are the perfect YOU!

Good fellowship and friendship are lasting, rational and manly pleasures.

One right-thinking man thinks like all other right-thinking men of his time that is to say, in most cases, like some wrong-thinking man of another time.

but isn't there always one good thing to look back on? think of how many cups of coffee we drank together.

People will always write and think all sorts of things – be irritated by us, have affection for us, think we dress coolly or disastrously. It’s whatever.

If I had the luxury of working as a full time writer, I think you would see novels appearing on a much more regular, and frequent, basis.

There's nothing like overcoming something that scares you so much. Nothing feels better.

What you are willing to lose will be proportionate to what you are able to win.

There is a vast difference between how things seem from the outside and how they feel on the inside.