Want to know the best thing about teaching? Seeing that moment when a kid discovers his or her gift. There's no feeling on earth like it.

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.

We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it.

Every need got an ego to feed.

I had done a lot of plays, particularly at my own theater in LA, and it was the first time in my theatrical life where I didn't feel that my role was also to keep everybody else working hard.

There is nothing that wastes the body like worry.

In the startup world, you're either a genius or an idiot. You're never just an ordinary guy trying to get through the day

I think for me to find that project is going to be something that I'm going to have to develop for myself.

They say greatness skips a generation, but I think that's because the generation before helps too much.

If things sometimes get tough, you can't ask yourself what impact it's having on you. It isn't an option.

It isn’t about looks; gorgeous women get dumped every day.

My trigger finger itching, positioned at your dome, one twitch and it's on. No remorse or second thoughts.