Only stupid men trying to seem smart need to be with dumb women. Only weak men trying to look strong are attracted to compliant women.

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.

Some were filled with pride. Some were filled with hope. Some were filled rage. But all of them screamed

maybe somebody finally shot the dog.

To be Spirit-filled is to be Christ-centered.

I now had enough faith not only to believe there were answer, but to feel certain that those answers would become apparent at some point in the future.

Hollywood films are alienating to the spectator because they use too much dialogue, too much explication and leave no space for the viewer. They depress me.

Where pity is, for pity makes the world Soft to the weak and noble for the strong.

After my divorce, I was struggling to find my own voice. Through reading, I gained my power back.

If you could see yourself the way that others do, you'd wish you were as beautiful as you.

It is doubling now every two years. Doubling every two years means multiplying by 1,000 in 20 years. At that rate we'll meet 100 percent of our energy needs in 20 years.

Cunning differs from wisdom as twilight from open day.