Remember that 'plumber in space' is not such a bad setup for a story.

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.

Train your new employee properly. Sounds so obvious, and yet it often doesn’t happen.

My daughter and two sons are the flowers in my heart and garden.

I was sixteen, and I honestly believed I was due a love story.

The Nobel Peace Prize has always been a joke - albeit a grim one. Alfred Bernhard Nobel famously invented dynamite and felt sorry about it.

The evidence I see tells me the unborn is a human being.

The more you can create that magic bubble, that suspension of disbelief, for a while, the better.

What, what am I to do with all of this life?

Understand there is a price to be paid for achieving anything of significance. You must be willing to pay the price.

Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.

The United States wants to be part of the solution to its problems and not, in part, the maker of their problems.