I watched Titanic when I got back home from the hospital, and cried. I knew that my IQ had been damaged.

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.

I am blessed with 365 days of thanksgiving and answered prayer.

The political problem of mankind is to combine three things: economic efficiency, social justice and individual liberty.

If being brave were easy, more people would be.

Prayer is not merely an occasional impulse to which we respond when we are in trouble: prayer is a life attitude.

Give crowns and pounds and guineas But not your heart away; Give pearls away and rubies, But keep your fancy free.

The dead are visible only in the terrible lidless eye of memory.

We should be I hope finally realizing what Vladimir Putin is. He's an old colonel, KGB, apparatchik, and he dreams of the restoration of the Russian empire.

The sands of time are quicksands ... so much can sink into them without a trace.

The surest way to remain poor is to be an honest man.