I hope to return. I’ll do so if I’m not killed. Probably will anyway.

The purpose of a storyteller is not to tell you how to think, but to give you questions to think upon.

Expectations were like fine pottery. The harder you held them, the more likely they were to crack.

We follow the codes not because they bring gain, but because we loathe the people we would otherwise become.

In the end, all men die. How you lived will be far more important to the Almighty than what you accomplished.

Sometimes the prize is not worth the costs. The means by which we achieve victory are as important as the victory itself.

Everything is a contest. All dealings among men are a contest in which some will succeed and others fail. And some are failing quite spectacularly.

Somebody has to start. Somebody has to step forward and do what is right, because it is right.

Can a woman not walk with her possessions down the street of a city?

Too many of us take great pains with what we ingest through our mouths, and far less with what we partake of through our ears and eyes.

One can have a wit, but not a witless

Exposing corruption, brandishing truth.

Do you smoke, Herr Cabal?""Only to be antisocial, " replied Cabal, making no move.

'E.T.' was the movie that made me want to make movies in the first place, and it was the first movie that made me focus on writing instead of what happens in the movie.

A disposition to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a statesman.

The sea where living creatures were at one time immersed is now enclosed within their bodies.

I think that's why I keep being drawn back to television, because I think it's one of the most creative outlets.

Ethan: I love you, I whispered in her ear. She held my face in her hands and leaned back so she could look at me. Lena: I don't think I could ever love anything the way I love you.

Praises for our past triumphs are as feathers to a dead bird.

We can change the brain by changing the mind.

Arrogance is one of the flaws in the Erudite heart -- I know. It is often in mine.