Of all the stories I have read about heroes, and all that I could ever read, of one thing I'm certain-he is mine.

Worry in the dark can make it even darker.

All good stories - stories that touch your soul, stories that change your nature, stories that cause you to become a better person from their telling - these stories always contain truth.

I distance myself from heaven and then complain that heaven is distant.

Peace is a product of both patience and persistence.

Crafting a plan is easy. Taking action will always prove to be the more difficult path.

I have been quiet today because fear in my heart has been fighting with frustration in my brain, leaving little energy for my mouth.

White shall not neutralize the black, nor good compensate bad in man, absolve him so: life's business being just the terrible choice.

A typical vice of American politics is the avoidance of saying anything real on real issues.

But let the good prevail.

I hadn't mentioned, but Ching Shih is a pretty villainous character. She is a real person, but she was a pirate commander, so she probably murdered a lot of people.

You do not explain the tree by telling of the water it has drunk, the minerals it has absorbed, and the sunlight that strengthened it.

Brains, like cabbages, are beautiful-but in a different way. Cabbage heads are dumb and sterile, whereas brains are personal, intelligent and vibrant.

We have 3,141 counties in this country. That would be 20 per county. The idea that we can't assimilate these 8-year-old criminals with their teddy bears is preposterous.

You can be pitiful, or you can be powerful, but you can't be both

The whole thing with eastern music and instruments, I love all that stuff.

That's one more thing people don't know about Indians: We love to talk dirty.