The brain is a muscle that can move the world.

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 try not to speak to critics. It only encourages them.-Snagglepuss

Too many of us take great pains with what we ingest through our mouths, and far less with what we partake of through our ears and eyes.

I would suggest that our imagination is a tiny shard of God’s infinite genius that we have within us simply because we were created in God’s image.

The church is like Noah's ark. It stinks, but if you get out of it, you'll drown.

Happiness is the consequence of personal effort. You must fight for it, strive for it, and insist upon it.

We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.

Parting they seemed to tread upon the air, Twin roses by the zephyr blown apart Only to meet again more close.

Accept the fact that you're an artist and stop second-guessing yourself. Just do it.

Regret isn't good. Every decision one makes in life is made for a reason or another. Whenever something bad happens, I go, 'This is happening for a reason', or, 'This is going to teach me something'.

I was a gymnast for years.