The shining. It was a good name, a comforting name, because she had always thought of it as a dark thing.

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.

Humans and their wars. You call me monster, , but look what you've gone and done to one another! Good riddance to you now and, if I'm lucky, forever. Have your war. I'll have my radish stew.

Preventing war is the work of politicians, establishing peace is the work of educationists.

Actions, not words, are the ultimate results of leadership.

Love between a man and woman is war.

Illustrious man! deriving honor less from the splendor of his situation than from the dignity of his mind.

One of the best ways to seed an opportunity is to allow someone to discover the opportunity for him- or herself.

His brothers were the type; he was the variation.

. And it is youth who must inherit the tribulation, the sorrow and the triumphs that are the aftermath of war.

As an American, I want to see our nation recapture the strength and unity it once had when we fought the enemy instead of ourselves.

I'm in the business of value judgments .