The best ambassador is a warship.

How many of us have had our hearts broken for whatever reason yet find the courage to continue to reach out for love. Emotional vulnerability is true strength to me.

NaNo[ National Novel Writing Month] is an awesome opportunity to stretch your writing muscles and gives you permission to write in a way you probably wouldn't do in a normal circumstance.

Your best dreams happen when you wake up.

There were many ways to lie without saying something that wasn't true. I was learning that the hard way.

We must act on the direction we receive. We must look up and step up. And as we do, I know we will cheer up, for God wants us to be happy.

The problem with paradise is that it's temporary: You don't belong here and the neighbors are nobody you care to know, so it's only blissful for a week or so.

Prepare, You lovers, to know Love a thing of moods: Not like hard life, of laws.

I take the threat of terrorism very seriously, and no one is more committed to hunting down terrorists and bringing them to justice, wherever they live, than I am.

Life wasn't meant to be easy.

My ideas have undergone a process of emergence by emergency. When they are needed badly enough, they are accepted.

Intentions don't matter. It's the end result we're all judged by. Evil in the name of good is still evil. And when you dance with the devil, you seldom get to pick the tune.

We need metaphors of magic and monsters in order to understand the human condition.