When the sounds of the world around you vanish, what is left but screaming silence.

There cannot be love without loss, just like there cannot be happiness without sadness, or light without dark.

When sounds of the world around you vanish, what is left but screaming silence.

Don’t judge based on what you see, judge based on what you know, because the two are rarely similar.

And in the end, she left a scarand I knew that washow she wanted tobe remembered.She wanted to leaveher mark in theworldwithout gettingher heart tooattached to it.

Money tends to take on and maintain the characteristics in which it is acquired.

Sadness makes you notice the goodness.

And then a great thing in my life was going to India.

I learned to focus and work hard and not give up. I learned that every obstacle is really an opportunity.

Your inside is out and your outside is in.

Any man can shoot a gun, and with practice he can draw fast and shoot accurately, but that makes no difference. What counts is how you stand up when somebody is shooting back at you.

If someone were to tell me I had twenty years left, and ask me how I'd like to spend them, I'd reply 'Give me two hours a day of activity, and I'll take the other twenty-two in dreams.'

I love the detail about the workings of the human heart and mind that only fiction can provide - film can't get in close enough.

There is more good writing and good acting in any ten minutes of Twister than in, say, all of Citizen Kane.