Being poor is only romantic in books.

I try to give both my heroes and villains an emotional dimensionality which provides the motivation for their actions.

Don't give up. There are too many nay-sayers out there who will try to discourage you. Don't listen to them. The only one who can make you give up is yourself.

You have two choices. you can keep running and hiding and blaming the world for your problems, or you can stand up for yourself and decide to be somebody important.

There is magic, but you have to be the magician. You have to make the magic happen.

My heroes are those who risk their lives every day to protect our world and make it a better place - police, firefighters and members of our armed forces.

Life is like a novel. It's filled with suspense. You have no idea what is going to happen until you turn the page.

To be successfull you need friends and to be very successfull you need enemies.

A blank piece of paper is God's way of telling us how hard it is to be God.

Try to leave the Earth a better place than when you arrived.

you are my sun, and if the sun went out, the shadow would die.

Somewhere between a friend and acquaintance—a frequaintance, as it were.

My thoughts ran a wool-gathering.

I've generally got a good eye for design and proportion.

Being a publicist is like management in a lot of ways - you're their friend, you're their mother, you're their confidante.

The desire of excellence is the necessary attribute of those who excel. We work little for a thing unless we wish for it.

Each year in Africa about two and a half million people go blind...and they just go blind... they sit around in their huts.

I love when a director says, "I don't know."

The mere absence of war is not peace.

Know ye the land where the cypress and myrtle Are emblems of deeds that are done in their clime? Where the rage of the vulture, the love of the turtle, Now melt into sorrow, now madden to crime!

Fun is just another word for learning.