There is no tyrant as merciless as pain.

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.

Put a thief among honest men and they will eventually relieve him of his watch.

Worship is the proper response of all moral, sentient beings to God, ascribing all honor and worth to their Creator-God precisely because he is worthy, delightfully so.

If I can't take Jesus Christ with me, I don't want to go.

A pessimist is a man who thinks all women are bad. An optimist is a man who hopes they are.

Adventuring can be for the ordinary person with ordinary qualities, such as I regard myself.

The future not being born, my friend, we will abstain from baptizing it.

Cliches are what make you understand something.

Dialogue works the least well when it's telling you what's going on.

Freedom is choosing your responsibility. It's not having no responsibilitie s; it's choosing the ones you want.

But conversation, choose what theme we may, And chiefly when religion leads the way, Should flow, like waters after summer show'rs, Not as if raised by mere mechanic powers.