Say your name over two hundred times and discover you are no one.

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.

Books have a way of finding their way into our lives, usually, right when we need them the most.

Life is as beautiful as the stars and the moon except when it is covered by the clouds of sadness and pain.

You can either complain about how hard your life is, or you can realize that only you are responsible for it.

You cannot and should not try to please everyone. Make sure that the right people like you, and it will be expected that others will not. That's how the world works.

I suggest we depict penguins as callous and unfeeling creatures who insist on bringing up their children in what is little more than a large chest freezer.

I cannot be what I am not.

Do not think that you are too busy to study the gospel.

Consistency is the bugbear that frightens little minds.

Great works are performed, not by strength, but by perseverance. Those that walk with vigor, three hours a day, will pass in seven years a space equal to the circumference of the globe.

It's slow. It's inch by inch. But nature always bats last. The planet isn't going anywhere.