High school isn't a very important place. When you're going you think it's a big deal, but when it's over nobody really thinks it was great unless they're beered up.

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.

Even those afraid of the dark must live through half of each day as night, to come to see the beauty in each.

Be patient

The society that embraced him continued to prosper by stressing the family unit and their close-knit community. Hers prospered by forcigng independence and self-sufficiency.

Some colored people so scared of whitefolks they claim to love the cotton gin.

When life hands you lemons say, "Lemons? What else have you got?" - bumper sticker

One of the best ways of enslaving a people is to keep them from education.

Education has always been very important to me.

It is useless to tell one not to reason but to believe; you might as well tell a man not to wake but sleep.

I played golf competitively as a teenager. I actually took a year off after high school and just played golf and went to a university in France for maybe a month and dropped out.

Trust is the emotional glue that binds followers and leaders together.