Consider the possibility that I made a mistake I regret-and that I'll continue to regret that mistake and try to convince you to give me another chance until the earth stops turning.

Words have power? That sounds like you're into some Harry Potter juju.

The best revenge is a life well lived.

Sometimes life is about being sad and doing things anyway. Sometimes it's about being hurt and doing things anyway. The point isn't perfection. The point is doing it anyway.

I’d prefer to see both knees on the ground. I mean, if you’re going to grovel, be the best groveler you can, right?

My job is to ensure the sanctity of this House. Ensuring the sanity of its Master seemed like a good start.

Family. Couldn't live with them, couldn't run a stake through them.

You string some letters together, and you make a word. You string some words together, and you make a sentence, then a paragraph, then a chapter. Words have power.

His lips so soft, yet so stern, he pressed his mouth to mine. "I will have both of you, " he said. "My Sentinel and my city. And the GP will learn exactly how stubborn we both can be.

If it was appropriate to judge a person based on her footwear - and it obviously was - I decided I liked her immediately.

Snug pants, bandeau-type corset, and trim, motorcycle jacket. It was a fabulous outfit, but it was so urban-fantasy book cover

If you think that political correctness is no big deal, just remember that the communists started by eliminating inconvenient people and ended by eliminating inconvenient people.

Glenn Close is a living icon. You look at the work, and I think it's wild, because she thinks some of her best work was in Dangerous Liaisons and that's what I believe as well.

When seen from outer space, our beautiful blue planet has no national boundaries.

breathtaking, adj. Those moments when we kiss and surrender for an hour before we say a single word.

Lincoln did but pour the soul of the nation into the monumental act of universal liberty; and that soul was inspired by the gospel.

You need a relationship with Jesus, and I had never heard that before. So when my mom told me about that, I said, "Okay, let me try this." And so I did.

It is little silly to be a caricature of something of which you know very little, and which means very little to you, but to be your own caricature — that is the true carnival!

I think my mom and dad knew from the very beginning that I was destined to go into public service.

I've been a hunter pretty much all my life.

It’s a rare man who is taken for what he truly is.