Sometimes there is absolutely no difference at all between salvation and damnation.

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.

It has become much harder, in the past century, to tell where the garden leaves off and pure nature begins.

When a man is ill nothing is so important to him as his own illness.

The secret to success is to start from scratch and keep on scratching.

The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning it.

There is a stupid humility that is quite common and when a person is afflicted with it, he is once and for all disqualified for being a disciple of knowledge.

Give the pupils something to do, not something to learn; and the doing is of such a nature as to demand thinking; learning naturally results.

We had a happy marriage because we were together all the time. We were friends as well as husband and wife. We just had a good time.

People will believe anything if it means they can go on with their lives and not have to think too hard about it.

Our ability to respond positively to setbacks, fuels our creativity and lays the foundation for future successes.

I love this cornbread so much, I wanna take it behind a middle school and get it pregnant.