People might think writing is a hard business, but it's nowhere near acting.

You make a life out of what you have, not what you're missing.

A girl expecting rescue never learns to save herself. Even with the means, she will find her courage wanting.

Memory is a cruel mistress with whom we all must learn to dance.

It's a terrible thing, isn't it, the way we throw people away?

Reluctance to begin is quick to befriend procrastination. . . .

In each man's heart there lies a hole. A dark abyss of need, the filling of which takes precedence over all else.

His words had tossed the book that was her life into the air and the pages had been blown into disarray, could never be put back together to tell the same story.

It was such a pleasure to sink one's hands into the warm earth, to feel at one's fingertips the possibilities of the new season.

There's a market for mysteries for adults. That feeling of opening a book and delving inside and not coming out until you've closed the book.

But history is a faithless teller whose cruel recourse to hindsight makes fools of its actors.

What's your dream and to what corner of the missions world will it take you?

Is the ocean simply a great pool of tears? I should like to think that even the stars must cry.

Stronger by weakness, wiser men become.

There's no way to resolve Syria without Iran being involved, given its financing of Assad and the fact that Hezbollah is probably the most effective fighting force that Assad can count on.

I always believed in love, compassion and a sense of universal respect. Every human being has that potential.

Wouldve came back for you, I just needed time to do what I had to do. Caught in the life, I cant let it go. Whether thats right, I wont ever know. But here goes nothin.

I tell people, 'It's just like a cliche, but it's true: In Hollywood, dreams can come true.'

Getting worried there might not be enough talent in America to acommodate all these singing shows.

I tend to pick on the people I'm closest with because I know they know it's not personal.