Make friends. Be a leader. Kiss butts if you have to, but if the other guys despise you-you know what I mean?

Among my most prized possessions are words that I have never spoken.

In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him.

I've lived too long with pain. I won't know who I am without it

Ender Wiggin must believe that no matter what happens, no adult will ever, ever step in to help him in any way.

I need you to be clever, Bean. I need you to think of solutions to problems we haven't seen yet. I want you to try things that no one has ever tried because they're absolutely stupid.

Unemployment is capitalism's way of getting you to plant a garden.

We're like the wicked witch. We promise gingerbread, then eat the little brats alive.

Metaphors have a way of holding the most truth in the least space.

There's only one thing that will make them stop hating you. And that's being so good at what you do that they can't ignore you

There is more good writing and good acting in any ten minutes of Twister than in, say, all of Citizen Kane.

Your dream will only benefit humanity when you make it tangible by living it out.

The three great acts are love, goodness and self-sacrifice.

A key point to bear in mind: The value of attentiveness varies in proportion to its object. You’re better off not giving the small things more time than they deserve.

I've always had the hair of Lionel Ritchie since I was a boy, but the mullet sadly is a hairpiece. My wife won't let me rock that hairstyle.

I said some words to the close and holy darkness and then I slept.

No house should ever be on any hill... It should be of the hill.

A camera has interesting ideas of its own.

After five months I swore I’d never get pregnant again. I got so huge and it felt like someone had taken over my body.

We are about to have a racial explosion.

In times of shrinking expectations,... everyone feels like a victim and pushes away outsiders to defend his own corner.