All great beginnings start in the dark, when the moon greets you to a new day at midnight.

He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.

If you spend your time hoping someone will suffer the consequences for what they did to your heart, then you're allowing them to hurt you a second time in your mind.

There comes a time in your life when you have to choose to turn the page, write another book or simply close it.

A true gentleman is one that apologizes anyways, even though he has not offended a lady intentionally. He is in a class all of his own because he knows the value of a woman's heart.

A best friend is the only one that walks into your life when the world has walked out.

The most confused you will ever get is when you try to convince your heart and spirit of something your mind knows is a lie.

When you loved someone and had to let them go, there will always be that small part of yourself that whispers, "What was it that you wanted and why didn't you fight for it?

The most introspective of souls are often those that have been hurt the most.

When someone you love says goodbye you can stare long and hard at the door they closed and forget to see all the doors God has open in front of you.

If he can't handle you at your worst then he does not deserve you at your best. Real love means seeing beyond the words spoken out of pain, and instead seeing a person's soul.

Your heart will always open again if you let it.

Keep fighting until the last buzzer sounds.

There's something almost adolescent about Whitman's paean to everything that was and remains good about America.

I've been lucky to be able to work with great people and on interesting material.

Even though we can't communicate using the same language, we use music instead.

The feelings which seek expression in words are mostly egotistical, since they seek to express what flatters our self-love and can show us, as we imagine, in the best light.

There will be new and exciting filmmakers to come and movies that will be great successes.

It is the fancy of every mortal that being cradled in the arms of mortality is a safe place for the time being.

Stories, like whiskey, must be allowed to mature in the cask.

All successful people learn that success is buried on the other side of frustration.