Take the dead from the dead, the old proverb said; only a corpse may speak true prophecy.

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.

Can all this just be an accident? Or could there be some alien intelligence behind it?

Globally, our soul lessons have become more frequent and intense as we are called to evolve.

I know some people who've gotten tattoos that they probably shouldn't have, like the name of somebody they were dating, and that never ends well.

We are not thinking machines that feel; rather, we are feeling machines that think.

We are New Yorkers. Proud citizens of the greatest city on earth. Thinking big isn't new to us. It is the very foundation of who we are.

Because they knew each other's thoughts, they even quarrelled without speaking.

My belief is we will, in fact, be greeted as liberators.

Being an actress has something in common with being a housewife. They both look terribly easy to someone who hasn't done them. And the easier it looks, probably the better you are doing your job.

The sacrifice of pleasures is of course itself a pleasure.

Ask yourself honestly, who do you wanna be and what are you willing to do to become that person?