If you don't have the time to read, you don't have the time or the tools to write.

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.

Unleash the force of bliss within you. Radiate your joy no matter what!

It is better to be gentle than rude.

Stay the course. Don't tell me about the storms just bring the ship home and dock it.

Did you think your boyfriend was going to stick around and watch you do THAT? If we weren’t related, I would’ve left too. Actually…is it already too late for me to leave?

Father Time is the make-up man responsible for the physical changes that determine the parts the average actor is to play.

He had a heart that could have held the entire empire of the world; and, in the end, he had to content himself with a cellar.

Everybody thinks that this civilization has lasted a very long time but it really does take very few grandfathers' granddaughters to take us back to the dark ages.

... you must not expect to find that people understand what they do.

In this world of chance and change and mutability, the fulfillment of any resolve depends on the will of the Lord.

I'll be Pavlov, you be the dog.