Scaring people, especially in our day and time, is one of the hardest things on earth, as far as I am concerned.

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.

Set aside your repertoire of objections and own 100 percent of your focus.

If we plant the right seeds, tomorrow will be better. If you put out good things, then you'll get good things back. That's part of our responsibility as entertainers.

The process, not the final achievement, is what it's all about.

Clouds sink down the hills Coffee is hot again. The dog Turns and turns about, stops and sleeps.

All the dogs I have are German shepherds from Germany, and I fly them back to Germany to show them.

Time is always wanting to me, and I cannot meet with a single day when I am nut hurried along, driven to by wits'-end by urgent work, business to attent do or some service to render.

You don't need shock value things to make a movie successful.

Today is not bad just because yesterday seemed better.

The human brain is by far the most complex physical object known to us in the entire cosmos.

Imagination is only intelligence having fun. A healthy mind knows how to switch between worlds, and which one you need to eat and sleep in.