If being a kid is about learning how to live, then being a grown-up is about learning how to die.

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.

Nothing was ever normal again.Many lives change like that -- all of a sudden, and forever.

Resentment generates hate

Our strategy is one of preventing war by making it self-evident to our enemies that they're going to get their clocks cleaned if they start one.

The thing is this: You got to have fun while you're fightin' for freedom, 'cause you don't always win.

You've got to be willing to forgive and say, 'God, get something good out of something bad.' And if you'll make that choice... God will do it.

The new source of power is not money in the hands of a few, but information in the hands of many.

You can't love your team without hating another team.

The common trait of all evil is nothing other than egoism... Basically all human evil comes from what we call the selfishness.

Even knowing the ending was sad, I wouldn't have deprived myself the beauty of the story.

A lot of people didn't get to see Butler's skills throughout the course of the season.