If we don't stand up for others, who will be left to stand up for us?

Long memory, short fuse, big revenge.

Gar taldin ni jaonyc; gar sa buir, ori'wadaasla. (Nobody cares who your father was, only the father you'll be.) - Mandalorian saying

Writing is like a rollercoaster ride for me, an adventure. I love exploring the world through playing people who are absolutely nothing like me.

We're all going to die sometime, so you might as well die pushing the odds for something that matters.

Ugliness is an illusion, gentlemen. Like beauty. Like color. All depends on the light. The only reality is action.

I love being pushed out of my comfort zone.

If you take a shot at someone, you keep firing until they can no longer return fire. Wound them, and you have an angry enemy who knows your position.

If you're not prepared to do something in public, don't do it at all.

People who wouldn't dream of drowning a puppy in a barrel full of water think nothing of killing a fish the same slow way.

Real evil wasn't about bending the law to suit justice: evil was acting out of small, intensely personal expedience and losing sight of the bigger picture so often that you never got it back again.

After everything I'd lived through, I was not going to be reduced to a one-sentence definition.

The day I started fearing regret is the day I decided to never stop.

We must treat others as if they matter, as if they are worthy of care and attention.

I've always wanted to be the best in the world as a baseball player, so when I started to think about opening a business, it was with that mindset.

I am really and truly frightened by the collapse of support for the Republican Party by the young and the educated.

The subject, however various and important, has already been so frequently, so ably, and so successfully discussed, that it is now grown familiar to the reader, and difficult to the writer.

I love working for the people of Indiana. I love helping our citizens make the most of their lives, but I do not love Congress.

My basic view of things is - not to have any basic view of things. From having been exceedingly dogmatic, my views on life have gradually dissolved. They don't exist any longer.

Take caution in your tone, commander. I'm a fair man, but this -- heat is making me absolutely crazy.

There's nothing like suffering to remind us how not in control we actually are, how little power we ultimately have, and how much we ultimately need God.