The mind can calculate, but the spirit yearns, and the heart knows what the heart knows

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.

I used to pray that God would do this or that now I pray that God will make His will known to me.

While President Bush likes to project an image of strength and courage, the real truth is that in the presence of his large financial contributors, he is a moral coward.

The country has come a long way in race relations, but the pendulum swings so far back. Everyone wants to be so sensitive.

Remember: in the end, it is the merciful who obtain mercy.

There's nothing revolutionary about Saturday Night Fever . You can see the same kind of movement at your local disco.

Mom always tells me to celebrate everyone's uniqueness. I like the way that sounds.

Past tense offers authority, distance, and present tense offers emotional immediacy.

If you have never changed your mind about some fundamental tenet of your belief, if you have never questioned the basics, and if you have no wish to do so, then you are likely ignorant.

Children have an uncanny memory for what parents say, but don't do.

For nothing ought to be posited without a reason given, unless it is self-evident (literally, known through itself) or known by experience or proved by the authority of Sacred Scripture.