None of us could be happy for long, doing nothing.

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.

Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself and never mind the rest.

Like the darkness of night, difficult times don’t last.

If there was anything he’d learned in his life, it was to fight fire with fire, and if that didn’t work, piss on the fire to put it out.

My mother was always encouraging about my wanting to be an artist.

God's love for me is perfect because it's based on Him not on me. So even when I failed He kept loving me.

We went down for pilot season, I got Full House, and we wound up never leaving.

What I absorbed from autobiographies was not how to be great so much as the littleness of the great.

Seeing my ideas come to reality. Seeing how happy it makes other people to wear them. Seeing them on other people makes me the happiest.

I think that my responsibility to my art is to try to get it right or to push the boundaries of what I'm able to do in any way.

Not everyone needs to be slammed into a category and locked there.