L I V E or E V I L -- to Live life is to spell forward. To not live life is to spell backwards.

He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.

If you spend your time hoping someone will suffer the consequences for what they did to your heart, then you're allowing them to hurt you a second time in your mind.

There comes a time in your life when you have to choose to turn the page, write another book or simply close it.

A true gentleman is one that apologizes anyways, even though he has not offended a lady intentionally. He is in a class all of his own because he knows the value of a woman's heart.

A best friend is the only one that walks into your life when the world has walked out.

The most confused you will ever get is when you try to convince your heart and spirit of something your mind knows is a lie.

When you loved someone and had to let them go, there will always be that small part of yourself that whispers, "What was it that you wanted and why didn't you fight for it?

The most introspective of souls are often those that have been hurt the most.

When someone you love says goodbye you can stare long and hard at the door they closed and forget to see all the doors God has open in front of you.

If he can't handle you at your worst then he does not deserve you at your best. Real love means seeing beyond the words spoken out of pain, and instead seeing a person's soul.

Success is mainly the result of hard work.

History repeats, again.

Love conquers all difficulties, surmounts all obstacles, and effects what to any other power would be impossible.

In exile, I have tried to profit by the past and prepare for the future.

If we ruin the earth, there is no place else to go

Movies and novels, the two things that informed and taught me the most, are forms of escapism. I thought that was how life could look if you wanted it to.

I didn't drop into the mannerisms of another version of the character, but I guess I was pretty alert to that.

I don't see my work as being all that personal. I've used my personal experience in the world, of course, or at least my way of looking at the world. But I think that's changed as I've gotten older.

Respecting others' opinions doesn't mean being untrue to our own.

I feel like an aeroplane at the end of its flight, in the dusk, with the petrol running out, in search of a safe landing.