Long days and pleasant nights

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.

Propaganda is the executive arm of the invisible government.

Our power of perseverance is as that of an eagle. We soar above our challengers.

Reading haiku is like viewing a photograph or a painting. A haiku is a moment of time, isolated, and held up for viewing.

I think there's great potential for autonomy, but we have to remember that we live in a world where people may have free will but have not invented their circumstances.

Some of 'em [virtues] like extinct volcanoes, with a strong memory or fire and brimstone.

I'm a believer in screening movies early, and using the movie itself to help sell the movie. If you can't do that, I feel like you shouldn't be releasing the movie.

I don't really think there's much difference between a character actor and a leading man besides aesthetics.

Fear; if allowed free rein, would reduce all of us to trembling shadows of men, for whom only death could bring release

People who go to work to be a part of the cause don't go home. They are home. Now - who wants to quit?

Not everyone who has made peace with God has realized the peace of God.