The most important things are the hardest to say

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.

Your greatest wildernesses lead you to your greatest Promised Lands.

Fanaticism comes in as many flavors as there are human beings.

We all have something that centers us in our lives. That linchpin is something that when we don't do enough of it, we start to feel off center.

No building was safe from the furniture, the pictures, the human beings that it would presently contain.

Do not seek so anxiously to be developed, to subject yourself to many influences to be played on; it is all dissipation. Humility like darkness reveals the heavenly lights.

To put it simply, we first explain what we are talking about, and then explain why what we are saying is true (pace Bertrand Russell).

The world looks at what you have, while God sees who you have. The world's system is based on what you have done, while God looks at what Jesus has done on the cross for you.

I’ve always thought of myself as shy.

People are much more likely to act their way into a new way of thinking, than think their way into a new way of acting.

Life is a play.It's not its length,but its performance that counts.