On the subject of love at first sight, I’m with the Beatles: I believe that it happens all the time.

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.

power happily walks hand in hand with abuse

No easy problems ever come to the President of the United States. If they are easy to solve, someone else has solved them.

Faith is a mental attitude that is so convinced of its own idea - which so completely accepts it - that any contradiction is unthinkable and impossible.

I want to share with you my belief in your power to change this country and this world.

I guess at a certain point you think, well, singing is singing and acting is acting.

I belong to the 8% of the world population who calm their apprehension by drowning it in numbers.

Women are only told that they resemble angels when they are young and beautiful; consequently, it is their persons, not their virtues, that procure them homage.

Nobody's reasonable when they're in love. That's the whole point of it.

Dissensions between Muslim nations run at least as deep, if not deeper, than those nations' resentment of the West.

Every now and then, I feel terribly uncomfortable with what I'm working on, and then I think maybe I am an artist. I'm not very articulate about it, but I do know that you have to follow your gut.