Some old wounds never truly heal, and bleed again at the slightest word.

A cold wind was blowing from the north, and it made the trees rustle like living things.

Different roads sometimes lead to the same castle.

Never forget what you are, for surely the world will not. Make it your strength. Then it can never be your weakness. Armour yourself in it, and it will never be used to hurt you.

Fear cuts deeper than swords.

The man who fears losing has already lost.

Summer is the time for squabbles. In winter, we must protect one another, keep each other warm, share our strengths.

I swear to you, sitting a throne is a thousand times harder than winning one.

A bruise is a lesson... and each lesson makes us better.

Laughter is poison to fear.

Why is it that when one man builds a wall, the next man immediately needs to know what's on the other side?

For the eye has this strange property: it rests only on beauty.

My drummer, bass player, and guitar player sing backgrounds. They play and sing. I can sing all the harmonies, but I can't do it alone.

I'm a good friend of Jonah Lehrer's. You should go on a date with him.

Because we're watching so many movies and are consumed by so many stories, science fiction lets you do something a bit fresh and that hasn't been seen before.

At the beginning it wasn't to do with the work, it was more the experience.

America My Country: last nation on earth to abolish human slavery; first of all nations to drop the nuclear bomb on our fellow human beings.

We have all been beaten! Each one has to bear his misfortune! Resign yourself!

I consider a work of art as a product of calculations, calculations that are frequently unknown to the author himself.

When our commitment is diminished for any reason, part of the solution is repentance. Commitment and repentance are closely intertwined.

But steel bars have never yet kept out a mob; it takes something a good deal stronger: human courage backed up by the consciousness of being right.