The water was glassy and calm, still candy-colored in the afterglow of sunset.

Quiet people have the loudest minds.

Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.

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.

you can, you should, and if you’re brave enough to start, you will.

I can always look up at the cosmos and marvel, no matter what happens. And when I look up at it, I feel as though my problems are small. I don't know why, but it always makes me feel better.

All of us who are concerned for peace and triumph of reason and justice must be keenly aware how small an influence reason and honest good will exert upon events in the political field.

...what good would it do toshutter your windows, neverdream of rainbows or find hopein promises? Why choose to walk awayrather than hold your groundand fight for love?

The trouble with the dead, as I see it, is they don't stay that way.

All sliced up and sealed tight in baggies. Guess love makes you do funny things.

Film is different for me now. If the money is good and it's not totally revolting, I'll do it

Eisenhower was my war hero and the President I admire and respect most

We are in the midst of a protracted wage slump, ... a troubling trend that is largely going unnoticed by policymakers.

God in His law requires the death penalty for homosexuals.

I would do 'John Carter' again tomorrow. I'm very proud of 'John Carter.' Box office doesn't validate me as a person, or as an actor.