It's a tough life if you don't weaken.

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.

Life is too fragile and valuable to be spent doing something you hate.

Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability.

Sir, I wish to understand the true principles of the Government. I wish them carried out. I ask nothing more.

I don't really step out the house trying to make a fashion statement. I step out the house making sure I'm comfortable.

It's tough to break yourself as news to a town that already knows you.

Local casting is just something I love doing.

When a man is proud because he can understand and explain the writings of Chrysippus, say to yourself, 'if Chrysippus had not written obscurely, this man would have had nothing to be proud of.'

Give yourself some credit for the work you put in with your own two hands. But remember to never forget the people and things that have helped you along the way.

Let what comes come, let what goes go.

This country has gotten where it is in spite of politics, not by the aid of it. That we have carried as much political bunk as we have and still survived shows we are a super nation.