Was there ever a trap to match the trap of love?

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.

No place in this world is, as safe as my mother’s womb, And nobody in this world is, as loving as my mother.

Side by side we'll fight the tide, That sweeps in to take us down.Hand in hand we'll both withstand, Even as we drown.

It is always dangerous to underestimate anybody.

Nothing in Nature, much less conscious being, Was e'er created solely for itself.

The Truth must dazzle gradually or every man be blind.

Man can acquire accomplishments or he can become an animal, whichever he wants. God makes the animals, man makes himself.

I think politicians get hamstrung by the nature of politics when the private sector can really do great things.

...the incredulity of mankind, who do not truly believe in anything new until they have had actual experience of it.

There is an element of anger among women who've been raped. There's certainly a major element of humiliation. But it really does seem like a medical condition of shock and horror.

Anger or bitterness toward those who have hurt you will block your path to higher ground. You can have anger toward people or you can have freedom from people, but you can't have both.