There had never been a shortage of fools in the world

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.

A painting is worth a thousand confused art-gallery visitors.

God will never disappoint us. He loves us and has only one purpose for us : holiness, which in His kingdom equals joy.

I admire pop songs that are perfect at three minutes.

Your outer journey may contain a million steps; your inner journey only has one: the step you are taking right now.

[Gore] tended to drone on and on, in singsong, narcotizing cadences best endured by the heavily caffeinated.

Try looking at life as a beautifully well-organized dynamic.

If you give your word, let the entire Universe fall before you, but let your word stand.

I thank God that I have been meeting so many people who want to help me.

Because we are all poets or babies in the middle of the night, struggling with being.

I'm not a person that's walkin' down the street looking mean all day.