What I believe is that when it comes to big things in life, there are no accidents. Everything happens for a reason. You are here for a reason -- and it's not to fail and die.

Strange, I thought, how you can be living your dreams and your nightmares at the very same time.

At the heart of nature’s mystery lies another mystery.

You may choose to live in a world of fantasy if you like, my dear, but I am a realist.

Do you ever find yourself climbing into an open grave during a bombing raid..and wish you'd just stayed in bed?

She had maintained her strength in the face of all this for so long that we had come to take it for granted, but she wasn't bulletproof. She might've been peculiar but she was also human,

Destiny is for people in books about magical swords. It's a lot of crap.

At the heart of nature's mystery lies another mystery.

A song and a smile from someone I cared about could be enough to distract me from all that darkness, if only for a little while.

Everything happens for a reason.

Which was just well: goodbyes had never been my strong suit anyway, and lately my life had felt like an unbroken series of them. Goodbye, goodbye, goodbye.

Good music was meant to be loud!

I'm far from perfect- maybe beautifully flawed- but I don't lie

I have so much respect for Sam [L.Jackson] that if I had questions about anything, I would call and ask him if he agreed with me before I brought it up with Craig [Brewer].

No vital Christianity is possible unless at least three aspects of it are developed. These are the inner life of devotion, the outer life of service, and the intellectual life of rationality.

Make certain that your goals are not measured in comparison with others.

He was born a politician. No, Ursula thought, he was born a baby, like everyone else. And this is what he has chosen to become.

Whatever your craft is, be a master of it. Being half assed at something, people will eventually see through.

We all have a dark place in us. It's what we do with it and the choice we make.

I've reached most my goals and when my career is over I will have many other things to do.