Sometimes the embers are better than the campfire.

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.

My head's under water but am breathing fine

Pamela produced placid babies. "They don't tend to turn feral until they're two, " she said.

Dangers by being despised grow great.

I focus on myself, that's how I beat Wladimir Klitschko.

Art gives life to what history killed. Art gives voice to what history denied, silenced, or persecuted. Art brings truth to the lies of history.

Monastic life thus became a living protest against the secularization of Christianity, against the cheapening of grace.

We must use our lives to make the world a better place to live, not just to acquire things. That is what we are put on the earth for.

The most important quality for a judge is open- mindedness to the arguments.

There are many different ways to practice meditation; it's good to experiment until you find one that seems to suit you.

When you play quarterback in San Francisco, not much goes under the radar.