Everythin' seems ter happen ter you, doesn' it?

What's life without a little risk?

It is not our abilities that show what we truly are. It is our choices.

We've all got both light and dark inside us. What matters is the part we choose to act on. That's who we really are.

Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.

It is our choices... that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.

We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all of the power we need inside ourselves already.

The world is full of wonderful things you haven't seen yet. Don't ever give up on the chance of seeing them.

There is an expiry date on blaming your parents for steering you in the wrong direction; the moment you are old enough to take the wheel, responsibility lies with you.

Gryffindor, where dwell the brave at heart!

Twilight fell: The sky turned to a light, dusky purple littered with tiny silver stars.

No empty words and gestures, but hands filled with hands, hands pointing the way, hands tracing new lines as age slowly creases its course from the corners of my eyes.

Eighty percent of our criminals come from unsympathetic homes.

You take something from your past that you're somewhat ashamed about and you write about it from another character's point of view.

I found golf was too time consuming, but I did enjoy it.

America as we know it will end unless we end Medicare as we know it.

It is spiritual poverty, not material lack, that lies at the core of all human suffering.

I want to present a really interesting vision of [Jack] Kirby's characters and environments, as well as dig way, way deeper into the history of the Galactic Rangers.

Alison Lohman is an amazing actress. I was so proud to work with her.

If a conservative is a liberal who's been mugged, a liberal is a conservative who's been arrested.

I think anybody incapable of changing his mind is crazy.