Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.

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.

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.

you can, you should, and if you’re brave enough to start, you will.

Peace begins when expectations end.

A child is conceived in a womb of a woman, miraculously, in sacred moment of conception.

It is very strange that the years teach us patience - that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting.

When a man has lost all happiness, he's not alive. Call him a breathing corpse.

It is possible to be happy without having perfect health . . . Thank goodness my happiness doesn't come from my joints, but from my heart.

I think it's impossible to actually be a role model. I think on some level, you'll have your flaws or defects of character, regardless.

The trick is to compose what one wants to compose and to get it commissioned afterward.

If we do not now dare everything, the fulfillment of that prophecy, re-created from the Bible in song by a slave, is upon us: God gave Noah the rainbow sign. No more water, fire next time.

People aren't things to be molded; they are lives to be unfolded. And that's what true leaders do. They unfold the lives of others and help them reach their God-given potential.

The Beatles were huge. And the first thing they said when you interviewed them, 'Oh yeah, we grew up on Motown.'..They were the first white act to admit they grew up listening to black music.