Strong delusions travel like cold germs on a sneeze.

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.

The shortest route to wealth is the contempt of wealth.

Did you stand there in shock at the sight of that black smoke risin' against that blue sky? Did you shout out in anger, in fear of your neighbor or did you just sit down and cry?..

The worst of doing one's duty was that it apparently unfitted one for doing anything else.

No one makes a million dollars with minimal effort unless they win the lottery.

Do we dare to be ourselves?' This is the question that counts - and not, 'Must a man be helpless?' ...A man can do something for peace without having to jump into politics.

Faith as tiny as a grain of sand allows us to move mountains.

The twin gods, Necessity and Chance, walked among the stars. What needed to be, was; what might be, sometimes was.

True creativity is impossible without some measure of passion.

There's such divinity doth hedge a king That treason can but peep to what it would.