The emptiness was intense, like the stillness in a great factory when the machinery stops running.

There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.

Success is never so interesting as struggle

Of all the bewildering things about a new country, the absence of human landmarks is one of the most depressing and disheartening.

The sky was a midnight-blue, like warm, deep, blue water, and the moon seemed to lie on it like a water-lily, floating forward with an invisible current.

The fact that I was a girl never damaged my ambitions to be a pope or an emperor.

It takes a great deal of experience to become natural.

Winter lies too long in country towns; hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen.

Elsewhere the sky is the roof of the world; but here the earth was the floor of the sky.

The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is.

The end is nothing; the road is all.

A daily conviction that Jesus Christ is alive draws our hearts closer to Him to believe that He is alive to work in our lives!

Someone killed himself because of me once, Meredith said.People kill themselves because of what's inside of them, not because of other people.

A sitcom. I hate that word.

That is the greatest source of my anxiety on this film [The Hobbit], is that I'm going to be lynched.

Every performer who ever performed in rock and roll or even close to it is lying if they tell you that they weren't influenced in some way or another by Elvis Presley. He turned the world around.

Our national motto is 'In God we Trust,' reminding us that faith in our Creator is the most important American value of all.

The only difference between street fighting and boxing is there a ref there from stopping me from killing you

I skate now for fun and to keep myself in shape.

I consider the television set as the American fireplace, around which the whole family will gather.

Not one word," Kel warned. "Tobe and I have reached an understanding." Neal's lips twitched. "Why do I feel you did most of the understanding.