Life turns on a dime.

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.

It is not important how much money you gave away. It is important what good it will do on the way.

I want to thank everybody who made this day necessary.

People fall down, winners get up, and gold medal winners just get up faster!

It's such a commitment, making a film, you're really dedicated, it's your life, that's all you do for that period of your life.

True values are not taught and declared, they evolve through the acts and interaction of the living, they are understood at a near tacit level by those who live them.

There will be no war, but in the pursuit of principle no stone will be left standing.

Prayer in its highest form is agonizing soul sweat.

The human body has absolutely no requirement for animal flesh. Nobody has ever been found face-down 20 yards from Burger King because they couldn't get their Whopper in time.

The priority of the Trump administration is to secure the border and deport criminal aliens; people who are not just here illegally but who are violent criminals. That's the goal.

Television and film are such streamlined story mediums. You can't really meander about, whereas a novel is an interior experience.