Talent is a dull knife that will cut nothing unless it is wielded with great force.

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.

Every object is beautiful in motion; a ship under sail, trees gently agitated with the wind, and a fine woman dancing, are three instances in point

There is nothing sadder in this world than the waste of human potential. The purpose of evolution is to raise us out of the mud, not have us grovelling in it.

My accountant regularly asks to take me to lunch. I always say I can't afford it.

Be a go-giver, not a go-getter

Encouragement is oxygen to the soul. Good work can never be expected from a worker without encouragement. No one ever climbed spiritual heights without it. No one ever lived without it.

One of the things that has helped me as much as any other is not how long I am going to live, but how much I can do while living.

The tea party venerates the Constitution while despising the political system it has produced.

I don't know who Keyser Soze is, but whoever he is, he is going to get gloriously drunk tonight.

Sorrow makes for sincerity, I think.

I think people change, but the media, they never allowed me to change. They never allowed me to be a better person