Money solves nothing but it eases everything.

Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your grandparents had adifferent word for burger flipping

The first problem for all of us men and women is not to learn but to unlearn.

Your enemies are always manufactured to suit your purpose, right? How can you have a good enemy? You have to have an utterly evil enemy - and then the evilness has to progress.

Never bear more than one trouble at a time. Some people bear three kinds - all they have had, all they have now, and all they expect to have.

A home without a grandmother is like an egg without salt.

I never have plans for the future as you never know how things will turn out.

Everybody has a calling. And your real job in life is to figure out as soon as possible what that is, who you were meant to be, and to begin to honor that in the best way possible for yourself.

Even Christian—the poster child for "smartass"—looked grim.

Nuclear weaponry, of course, would be the be-all, end-all of just too many people in too many parts of our planet.

To me good storytelling is about journeys. It's about people's journeys, people's discoveries and how they deal with those discoveries; circumstances that put people in different situations.