If you want to live your whole life free from pain,you must either be a god or a corpse.

A concerted effort to preserve our heritage is a vital link to our cultural, educational, aesthetic, inspirational and economic legacies - all of the things that quite literally make us who we are.

If all my friends jumped off a bridge, I wouldn't jump with them. I'd be at the bottom, hoping to catch them.

Follow your heart. It rarely leads you astray. It's thinking that gets us into trouble.

It's the circumstances that create fear. How you respond is all you can control. Concentrate on that, and you'll always succeed.

Say it, do it, preach it, shout it, but never, absolutely never, believe your own bullshit.

He that endureth to the end, shall be saved.

Study the past if you would define the future. --CONFUCIUS

If what you know and what you love are the same thing, that's great. But if not, write what you love. I love history, secrets, conspiracies, action, adventure, international settings.

The people can be forced to fear, but not to love.

It's been my experience, Langford, that the past always has a way of returning. Those who don't learn, or can't remember it, are doomed to repeat it.

We were kissing like it was a long-forgotten language that we'd once been fluent in and were finding again

Innocence must die young if it isn't to kill the souls of men

The world belongs to the enthusiast who keeps cool.

I would rather be trampled by thousands of children than touch a spider.

I don't mean to talk so much about screenplay writing. Who wants to talk about screenplay writing? I've taught it and I felt like a charlatan because what I was teaching I probably couldn't do.

Birds always seem like they're swooping down on you.

If there is one area where equity is crucial and essential, I think it should be the issue of water.

Fat paunches have lean pates, and dainty bits Make rich the ribs, but backrout quite the wits.

After a time, civil servants tend to become no longer servants and no longer civil.