Edward was always focused, watching and also listening to what others couldn't see.

I like the night. Without the dark, we'd never see the stars.

He sighed. "The clouds I can handle. But I can't fight with an eclipse.

Who's afraid of the big bad wolf?" Jacob Black New Moon

Who are you and what have you done with my brother?

My life was an unending, unchanging midnight. It must, by necessity, always be midnight for me. So how was it possible that the sun was rising now, in the middle of my midnight?

You're not the center of the universe, you know.

I can't always be Lois Lane," I insisted. "I want to be Superman, too.

He's like a drug for you, Bella. I see that you can't live without him now. It's too late. But I would have been healthier for you. Not a drug; I would have been the air, the sun.

There was no reason for Bella Swan to cross paths with me. She would be avoided like the plague she was.

My last night as Isabella Swan. Tomorrow night, I would be Bella Cullen. Though the whole marriage ordeal was a thorn in my side, I had to admit that I liked the sound of that. - bella swan

Democracy is not an end in itself, but a means to achieve the sacred promises of human dignity, justice and peace.

I hope that I'm not simply defined by 'The X-Files,' and I hope I have more work that is important to do.

When, from the depths of your heart, you spontaneously wish all beings to find true, lasting happiness, this is great love.

We should reject big government and look inside ourselves for all the things that built this country into what it was.

I've never been afraid to be who I really am on screen.

Columbus not only sent the first slaves acroiss the Atlantic, he sent more slaves than any other individual

You can put anything into words, except your own life.

With two leftover husbands to account for, my wicked soul has just about shriveled and died

The anger is useful too because when things about the world upset you, that is really a fertile feeling to channel into fiction and to put out into books.

I have never been one for the over-the-top.