Memories are contrary things; if you quit chasing them and turn your back, they often return on their own.

Quiet people have the loudest minds.

Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.

The water was glassy and calm, still candy-colored in the afterglow of sunset.

A life without love is like a tree without fruit.

The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool.

Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.

Outside, daylight was bleeding slowly toward dusk.

You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.

People who try hard to do the right thing always seem mad.

The place where you made your stand never mattered. Only that you were there... and still on your feet.

You mustn’t throw them away. Let me have them.

If you have a warm and caring heart, you're loved ones will ensure you never depart. For long after you've turned that final page you'll still be right there on center stage.

I believe that we have to lift the voice without fear and simply go forward, because in a lot of other occasions, we got tired, we have lowered the arms and simply let everything happen.

I will not stop fighting against Islam until I have achieved freedom for our country.

Any teaching will not transform you as long as you are deeply attached to your body. Yoga is towards reducing this attachment.

What is the image you have of yourself?

We don't really have a movie industry; we have a trailer industry. The movie guys make five minutes worth of stuff to get people in the theatre, and eighty-five minutes of filler.

If what you're working for really matters, you'll give it all you've got.

I'm not a daily coffee guy at all, or energy drinks or anything like that.

I shudder when relating it.