And I guess you judge how well you're doing by how well you sleep at night... and what your dreams are like.

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.

Trees allow their old leaves to fall so they can then blossom.

Skilled labor teaches something not to be found in books or in colleges.

I'm thankful I grew up the way I did. It made me a hard worker and insightful to other people's lives.

You must trust and believe in people or life becomes impossible.

There are many ways to get involved with lives or communities and enrich the minds of others through music, but you really have to want to do this.

People of superior refinement and of active disposition identify happiness with honour; for this is roughly speaking, the end of political life.

I’m not too into the trends - I like to look at trends as suggestions, not as rules.

To be a good editor or a good writer, I think you really need to be a great reader first.

I asked him a number of questions and I got some very interesting answers. Ken's heroes, according to Christopher, would be people like John Wayne, of course.

I believe every human life is a gift from God and we should cherish and protect and celebrate them.