"I have always tried to be true to myself, to pick those battles I felt were important. My ultimate responsibility is to myself. I could never be anything else."

“God answers our prayers not because we are good, but because He is good.”

“All great discoveries...are products as much of doubt as of certainty, and the two in opposition clear the air for marvelous accidents.”

“Every time I flicked channels, there I was, talking. I was talking too much and writing too little. So Naomi and I went to Hawaii. The phone was cut off and we lost touch. This gave me the chance to have a good think about my life.”

“Most of Emily's backstory is written out between New Moon and Eclipse. I'm reading them as we're shooting the films. I haven't read Breaking Dawn yet. It's just too crazy. There's too much going on that you need a map. I just try to focus on one movie at a time. When we were doing New Moon press, people were already asking about Eclipse. I didn't read it until I was ready to go, so that it was fresh and I wasn't jumbled with all this other stuff.”

“We really want to send the message that commanders need to understand and be accountable. We saw that with the Catholic Church. No one cared when they went after the priests, but when they focused on the bishops then things began to change. And we see that analogy working with the military.”

Source : Source: blogs.indiewire.com

“It was one of those happy days that God grants us sometimes on earth to give us an idea of the bliss of heaven.”

Source : Johann David Wyss, Isabelle de Montolieu (1871). “The Swiss Family Robinson: Or, Adventures in a Desert Island. Six Coloured Engravings on Steel”, p.246

“All empires are created of blood and fire.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

“We all now tell stories by cutting from one dramatic scene to the next, whereas Victorian novelists felt free to write long passages of undramatic summary.”