We all do what we can, and it has to be good enough, and if it isn't good enough, it has to do.

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 good wife keeps you happy in bed, but a better wife keeps you happier even out of the bed.

Dogs, ye have had your day!

Comey really spent an enormous amount of energy in the period in which both he and Trump were in office trying to protect the FBI from political interference from the White House.

[Pope Francis ] is taken a selfie!He's a tremendous breath of fresh air.

The vision of personalised public services - meeting the individual needs of all our citizens - requires continuing reform in the way services are delivered

Of courtesy, it is much less Than courage of heart or holiness, Yet in my walks it seems to me That the Grace of God is in courtesy.

The photographer is filled with doubt. Nothing will soothe him.

Far from the truth lay the antique assumption that man had fathered the weapon. The weapon, instead, had fathered man.

Crisis can be an addiction as powerful as any other.

Mine be a cot beside the hill; A bee-hive's hum shall soothe my ear; A willowy brook, that turns a mill, With many a fall shall linger near.