You need to take out the stuff that’s just sitting there and doing nothing. No slackers allowed! All meat, no filler!

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 so scared of dying without ever being really seen.

Unless they are off duty, no matter how wide it is, and even when it is sincere, a smile seems fake if the job description of the person who is smiling includes smiling.

Sometimes, challenging a person to do their best is the most kind and compassionate thing you can do for them.

Ethics is knowing the difference between what you have a right to do and what is right to do.

“Nothing's impossible,” Poppet responds. She smiles at him and jumps, her red hair trailing out behind her as she falls.

All women want to be understood until they understand themselves.

God, help me to see others not as enemies or as ungodly but rather as thirsty people. And give me the courage and compassion to offer your Living Water, which alone quenches deep thirst.

I'm most certainly not the Beatles.

War's a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at.

Texas has a lot of electrical votes. [During an election campaign, after George Bush stated that Texas was important to the election]