Conflict drives fiction; no one wants to read a four-hundred-page novel in which everything rolls along smoothly. -- Nancy Kress
Some suggestions for you :
Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death.
The best thing about the future is that it only comes one day at a time.
When you appeal to force theres one thing you must never do - lose.
Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book.
Don't gain the world and lose your soul; wisdom is better than silver or gold.