You cant be too careful on a skateboard.

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.

I'm only telling you on the truth, " he said. "If you can't stand the truth, don't ask for it.

When life throws trials and tribulations towards you, shield your destiny with courage, faith and perseverance.

With all the yoga and meditation that I do, when the chaos happens it happens. But I'm not as affected as a lot of people - I don't react as much. I just let things drip off my back a little bit.

Searching nature I taste self but at one tankard, that of my own being.

The advertisements in a newspaper are more full knowledge in respect to what is going on in a state or community than the editorial columns are.

To be no part of any body, is to be nothing.

To be courageous requires no exceptional qualifications, no magic formula, no special combination of time, place, and circumstance. It is an opportunity that sooner or later is presented to us all.

We adults, our policies, our ways of governance, are responsible for poverty, not the children.

It matters only that you manifest your genius; it doesn’t matter when. It’s never too late or too early.

I've grown to really love musicals, you know?