Strange how knowing our story had no happy ending had freed us to live in the moment. We weren’t guy and girl. We weren’t damaged and terminal. We were just now.

Have you ever experienced human love?”“Yes. Once.”Regret shadowed his face. “Then why would you be willing to repeat it?”“What we learn is worth more than what we lose.

Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information on it.

It is a predisposition of human nature to consider an unpleasant idea untrue, and then it is easy to find arguments against it.

As Christians, we are not to get our worlds mixed up . . . We are not to mingle with the world, but we are to witness to the world.

Novel writing is a kind of private pleasure, even if nothing comes of it in worldly terms.

If you want to be transparent with your people, do not do anything cosmetic, whether to deceive your people or to get some applaud from the West.

I was lucky enough to be in some movies where I had powerful characters or I got to be the president on TV for a little while. Very short administration.

I like being in a recording studio. I like watching a song go from the simplicity of the original music.

The passion for playing Chess is one of the most unaccountable in the world

I was the one of those students who made the top half of the class possible.

Be confident, and just do it. It's all about not questioning what everyone else is thinking, since they're probably looking to others to know what is or isn't cool.