I choose to believe in God because it makes things better.

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.

My destiny plays with me in such a wayI feel I play with my destiny.

I would just as soon remain jamona than shed that many tears over a man.

Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.

The smuggling and distribution of misbranded drugs and medical devices of uncertain foreign origin has the potential for serious harm to patients.

I can take a week's vacation - maybe a week and a half - but after that, I'm itching to go back to work.

I have a lot more things to talk about now because I'm an adult.

John Kerry announced that he and his wife are leaving on a week-long vacation. He's going to take her back to the place where he first proposed to her - at her bank.

On land, on sea, at home abroad, I smoke my pipe and worship God.

Some things are sacred. Until you act like they're not. Then you lose them

Well, I don't think riding in a fighter plane and getting shot down is a qualification to be president.