Every man is a prisoner, and the greatest irony of all is to be the prisoner of another man.

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.

A pleasure is full grown only when it is remembered.

We are in a prison of our own minds holding our own chains around us. We create our oligarchs and fight for their right to oppress us.

But I can't confront the doubts I have.I can't admit that maybe the past was bad, and so, for the sake of momentumI'm condemning the future to deathso it can match the past.

Were I wrong, one professor would have been enough.

When we become captive to the Word of God, then we discover true freedom.

I want to see Toby Maguire fight Christian Bale.

However logical our induction, the end of the thread is fastened upon the assurance of faith.

In the search for reality, energy creates its own discipline. But mere discipline, without full comprehension of all this, has no meaning, it is a most destructive thing.

You are only three or four hours from taking your glasses off for keeps.

Writing a first draft and reminding myself that I'm simply shoveling sand into a box so that later I can build castles.