If you were seeing a lot of horseshit, there had to be a pony in the vicinity.

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.

You hold an absence at your center, as if it were a life.

How, when and what you perceive - defines your life!

The stroke of death is as a lover's pinch, which hurts and is desired.

Define your goals in terms of the activities necessary to achieve them, and concentrate on those activities.

The storm of frenzy and faction must inevitably dash itself in vain against the unshaken rock of the Constitution.

I think, at the end of the day, if youre a good actor, then youre a good actor.

No individual should take the blame for a loss, because no individual should get the credit for a victory.

No individual has sufficient experience, education, native ability and knowledge to ensure the accumulation of a great fortune, without the cooperation of other people.

Their sighing, canting, grace-proud faces, their three-mile prayers, and half-mile graces.

You will begin to succeed with your life when the pains and problems of others matter to you.